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Stastics ... understanding an applying.
On a percentile basis, where do you think you fall in using them "properly"?
Me... I am absolutely sure I'm more adept than 99.9956% of the general population based upon my on personal sampling 
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Me?!??? 'm an expert in stastics.
 (and, no, I do not consider myself an expert in the area. I am at the "The more I learn, the less I know" phase of learning- and that's not covid related stats either.) Last edited by LEAKYSEALS951; 08-27-2021 at 03:43 AM.. |
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I remember taking statistics in college.
I'd say that I'm better than avg (but that's not saying much).
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It's kinda perfect as is! 
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I actually can speel, tupe.... and poofread.
But just not here... It wuz not intentional
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08-27-2021, 04:55 AM
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This pandemic has created a new class of armchair statistics experts...I am NOT one of them, and hardly follow the news, and covid numbers.
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08-27-2021, 04:58 AM
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Pretty well being an engineer and taken at least two graduate level classes.
Thankfully you don't need a phd level understanding for useful interpretation of many of data sets. According to a personal recent sub sampling around here. I would say that the distribution of adeptness is bimodal in at least one group of thread participants. I wouldn't try to extend that estimate to the whole forum or population however, what with the extraordinary sampling bias
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The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean Never forgot it.
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I am too stupid.
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It's not complicated;
If everything on a Boeing aircraft isn't produced @ six sigma quality standard of deviation, they will not stay in flight @ a safe enough rate for the public to use them. |
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I was more interested in economics than statistics because the rate of return wasn't good enough.
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08-27-2021, 12:01 PM
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One part of understanding stastics is recognizing that multiple stastics might be passing through a cross section.
Understanding falters or misleads by not recognizing the presence of cross threads. The ideal wingspan of an airplane based solely on a single stastic would be an infinte wingspan. Yet airplanes do not have infinite wingspans. This is the problem of 2020 ongoing to today. Last edited by Tervuren; 08-27-2021 at 12:19 PM.. |
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08-27-2021, 12:14 PM
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Minor was in Quantitative Methods .... lots of stats, methodology, etc. to go along with my degree in Computer Science (modeling, simulations, etc.).... and I used them both extensively over my career. Kept me from having to get a real job too !
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