What would attract you to read an introductory textbook in a field very far from your own? (I have a dream to write a kind of 'Bayesian Botany in Your Backyard and Beyond' introduction into plant ecology on some point later in my life, so if it comes true, I will also ask your opinion on it:)) well, here goes nothing.)
What would attract you to read an introductory textbook in a field very far from your own?
Curiosity.
Also, practical necessity, of course.
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