It is mandatory for all LWers to enroll in this course.
Fellow commentors, we should attempt charitable interpretation.
It does seem likely that learning about statistics will make a lot of common mistakes (i.e. accounting for sampling bias, continuous significance testing being wrong, intuitive assessments of four-sigma-plus events being way off almost all the time) actually part of our brains. I base this on Udacity’s AI class making things like Bayes rule and A-star way more a part of my brain.
Fellow commentors, we should attempt charitable interpretation.
It does seem likely that learning about statistics will make a lot of common mistakes (i.e. accounting for sampling bias, continuous significance testing being wrong, intuitive assessments of four-sigma-plus events being way off almost all the time) actually part of our brains. I base this on Udacity’s AI class making things like Bayes rule and A-star way more a part of my brain.