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shokwave comments on Let's all learn stats! - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: mstevens 12 June 2012 03:31PM

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Comment author: shokwave 12 June 2012 08:09:33PM 5 points [-]

It is mandatory for all LWers to enroll in this course.

Fellow commentors, we should attempt charitable interpretation.

It does seem likely that learning about statistics will make a lot of common mistakes (i.e. accounting for sampling bias, continuous significance testing being wrong, intuitive assessments of four-sigma-plus events being way off almost all the time) actually part of our brains. I base this on Udacity's AI class making things like Bayes rule and A-star way more a part of my brain.