statistics

“If you can program a computer You have superpowers when it comes to learning statistics, because being able to program allows you to tinker with the most fundamental ideas in statistics, the way you might have tinkered with electronics when you were a kid, or …”

“The analytical approach is not better. This is an approximation to a distribution under a model with a whole bunch of assumptions which are rarely true and are almost always ignored anyway.”

“What I want to claim today is that many of you are faking it when it comes to statistics.”

“And I have a three-part diagnosis, which is that it's fallen in love with statistics, it's fallen in love with big data, and it's forgotten its roots.”

“So these kinds of judgment errors are just very commonplace, and that's why you obviously need people on the team who aren't just You know, ah, really good at writing the code, and you also knew people very familiar with statistics.”

“Statistics entered the English language to mean statecraft. It had nothing to do with math, and it certainly had nothing to do with data.”