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SwissTony

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14. Stats, IMO, is the worst taught subject in the world

Sun Apr 22, 2012, 06:32 AM

Apr 2012

Often, it's taught by people who don't have a stats background.

I was once asked to help a friend of a friend who was having troubles with the rank sum test (the simplest test there is). I asked to see the notes she had taken in class. I couldn't make head or tail of what she had written. The lecturer had taken something really simple and turned it into something mind numbingly complicated. (I knew it wasn't the student - I knew her quite well - and I'd seen similar abominations in other students' books).

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