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I went into a nat science major because animals are cool, and end up being a bunch of statistics and unfun math. I want my money back.
Please don’t lump statistics in with unfun math
It’s usually taught horribly and used poorly, with a large helping of superstition and rituals.
If you actually get to use it in a context where you’re not pulling some predecided methods out of a black box of tools chosen by people who don’t know statistics but want to avoid their publisher asking questions, it’s pretty fun.
You — I like you.
I hated how statistics was taught in my university science course. I did a ton of extra advanced modules when I was doing my A levels before university, so I learned more stats than most people do in high school. This just made the poor statistics taught to biochemists all the more confusing. There were things that they taught that were straight up wrong, and it really made me doubt myself.
I ended up going away and learning statistics in a more thorough way, which ended up being a lot of fun. In a weird way, I'm glad for how grim the stats course was because it led me to a much deeper understanding than I'd have gotten otherwise
Yeah, half of my statistics learnding was awful. Actually using it to study genetics? Fuck. Yes.