Jul 20th 2014, 1:31:31
Originally posted by Getafix:
Thanks hawkeyee. That makes me feel much better
edit added after some thought:
I once knew that hawkeyee. It was in the study of statistics in the MBA program at Queen's University that I first considered this. I went to see my professor to discuss it because I had doubts about the whole foundation of statistics at that time. I've since seen statistics used in all sorts of ways. My daughter is about to receive her doctorate in research psychology. All of the effects that she identifies in human behavior are shown to be significant in her research papers through the use of statistics.
So while I have forgotten a lot of statistics, such as the fact that the square root of -1 is i, I have retained my doubts about the entire field of statistics. It is being sold as a hard science but is very often used to support questionable opinions.