“Fortunately, concepts in statistics are grounded in intuition and rationality.“

Yeaaah… let’s talk about that.

Seems like a fair bit of stats were designed to intimidate —so as to get people to stop asking questions. Or at least that is the effect!

Stats designed for intuition are few. See Kill Math for how it might be done: https://worrydream.com/KillMath/

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frontfor a day ago | parent | next [-]

The article reads like work of a crackpot. There’s a reason why maths is done the way it is, and intimidating people is definitely not the motivation.

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QuantumNomad_ a day ago | parent [-]

Bret Victor is awesome. I especially like his “Inventing on Principle” talk and his “Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction” article.

https://vimeo.com/906418692

https://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/

	▲	dgellow a day ago \| parent [-]
		That doesn’t make that Kill Math article better

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breezybottom a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't think it's a question of design. Some ideas in stats are just fundamentally unintuitive. Pedagogy can help mitigate this, but it would take a revolution to fit it into a neat and intuitive framework, like calculus.