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Statisticians, is this true? (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] mephiska@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I took statistics with Roger Purves. I distinctly remember him saying that stats wasn't "math" in his intro lecture.

[โ€“] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Hehe, I mean I'm forced to teach by-hand statistics to undergraduates and we have to do... arithmetics. Multiplication. Division. Square roots!

It's a pretty established truth that we don't really do math. Lol