we’d be further along as a species if none of us had any understanding of probability at all and just all lived in a haze of “some things happen sometimes” instead of this bullshit where some people figured out how to put numbers to it
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i'm estimating 30% of your followers are going to disagree with this
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tbh, numbers were a mistake
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But why?
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We should never have invented words
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I think the real mischief was in hijacking a bunch of common words ("error", "significance", "power", etc.), giving them weird new meanings and then not telling anyone about it for 100 years.
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I mean one of the pioneers of statistics invented it so he could do race science, so yeah pretty much
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...and if he (actually they - you could mean at least Galton, Pearson or Fisher) hadn't pioneered statistics, we wouldn't have been able to use his (their) own inventions to prove him (them) wrong.
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Boo!! can't like that one
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