It will widen your horizon, they said. And here I was, foolishly thinking I could get away with half-assing statistics during my degree.

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    27 days ago

    Because engineering is precise, measurable, and easily reproducible. You should be testing your things in a way that all you need is a simple two-sample Z-test.

    Experiments on the humans, on the hand, unfortunately, have been outlawed. So all you get is a bunch of shitty noisy data, and yet you’re supposed to somehow make sense of it. Most people with a degree in stats would tell you not to even try, and yet those fucks at phycology departments always do while having had about one undergrad-level class as part of their masters.

    TL;DR good psychology programs nowdays train decent statisticians as they should.