Our broader society has community norms which require basically everyone to be literate. Nonetheless, there are jobs in which one can get away without reading, and the inability to read does not make it that much harder to make plenty of money and become well-respected. These statements are not incompatible.
Hmm… let me rephrase: it doesn’t seem to me like we would actually have a clear community norm for this, at least not one strong enough to ensure that the median community member would actually be familiar with stats and econ.
Our broader society has community norms which require basically everyone to be literate. Nonetheless, there are jobs in which one can get away without reading, and the inability to read does not make it that much harder to make plenty of money and become well-respected. These statements are not incompatible.
Hmm… let me rephrase: it doesn’t seem to me like we would actually have a clear community norm for this, at least not one strong enough to ensure that the median community member would actually be familiar with stats and econ.