Community Notorious on Nostr: nprofile1q…targs nprofile1q…e5nuy As a "not math person" who teaches stats to ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqftargs (nprofile…args) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqakr3986r8r2yff7zecyfm4c5cmnthkvnp3yxktp9muxj84t0m3vq7e5nuy (nprofile…5nuy) As a "not math person" who teaches stats to people who Do Not Want To Learn Stats, full agreement.
Perhaps it's the cognitive dissonance effects, but I have formed an opinion that "math people" looking down on stats are reacting to their difficulty with/distaste for having to interface with the "real world."
Some approaches to stats are purely theoretical, but it is a field inherently pointed toward application. The history of academia is partly the history of "pure" academics denigrating any application of their pure knowledge. I think that's partly because interfacing theory with reality is messy and difficult in ways some of the pure-math people find especially challenging.
Perhaps it's the cognitive dissonance effects, but I have formed an opinion that "math people" looking down on stats are reacting to their difficulty with/distaste for having to interface with the "real world."
Some approaches to stats are purely theoretical, but it is a field inherently pointed toward application. The history of academia is partly the history of "pure" academics denigrating any application of their pure knowledge. I think that's partly because interfacing theory with reality is messy and difficult in ways some of the pure-math people find especially challenging.