I want to agree with this; but a little knowledge of stats can be worse than none. (Whereas trig is just a painful waste of time.) Can the intro course explain its own limits, and the dangers of misuse?https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/951282864498372608 …
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Replying to @puellavulnerata @tehgeekmeister
Yes… there’s still some proofs in high school geometry, I believe, but no real explanation of what a proof is and why you should care, so I suspect it’s totally forgotten at the end of the year
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This. The significance and nature of proofs is not taught at school, and mostly not even understood by the teachers, because they don't understand the concept of epistemology.
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Right… and, unfortunately, I don’t think the MIT professors I had as a math undergraduate understood the issues involved at all well either. Anyway, were unwilling to discuss them!
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Replying to @Meaningness @puellavulnerata and
If you want to know how and why rationality works, you have to figure it out for yourself, because ain’t no one gonna tell you nothing
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well, there was this one guy...
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Yeah, unfortunately he got most of the details wrong, but it was a valiant attempt
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