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dr_dshivtoday at 7:12 AM1 replyview on HN

“Fortunately, concepts in statistics are grounded in intuition and rationality.“

Yeaaah… let’s talk about that.

Seems like a fair bit of stats were designed to intimidate —so as to get people to stop asking questions. Or at least that is the effect!

Stats designed for intuition are few. See Kill Math for how it might be done: https://worrydream.com/KillMath/


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frontfortoday at 7:16 AM

The article reads like work of a crackpot. There’s a reason why maths is done the way it is, and intimidating people is definitely not the motivation.

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