Stastics ... understanding an applying.

[KFC911]

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

[LEAKYSEALS951]

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.)

[id10t]

[masraum]

I remember taking statistics in college.

I'd say that I'm better than avg (but that's not saying much).

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

Me?!??? 'm an expert in stastics.

LOL .... I never claimed to be good at speeling

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by KC911

LOL .... I never claimed to be good at speeling

I couldn't tell if it was a typo or you were taking a jab at a comment made somewhere else. I can'st keep up with all the other threads round here.
It's kinda perfect as is!

[KFC911]

I actually can speel, tupe.... and poofread.

But just not here...

It wuz not intentional

[ckelly78z]

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.

[aschen]

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

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by masraum

I remember taking statistics in college.

Our professor made us all stand up and say in unison......

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean

Never forgot it.

[livi]

I am too stupid.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

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.

[Bill Douglas]

I was more interested in economics than statistics because the rate of return wasn't good enough.

[Tervuren]

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.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I was more interested in economics than statistics because the rate of return wasn't good enough.

I used statistics to analyze why I was so broke .... crap

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 !