I really realized my discovery.

Statistics textbooks, whether they're in Psychology, or Economics, or Sociology, or

This distinction is where most stats courses start off.

I think you may find that a larger fraction are socially constructed that you would have believed.

Because after all, if you ask even grownups about statistics, they look extremely stupid.

So that's what we're going to focus on.

Or even the challenges of nation states in the modern global economy.

It's not just the tools, it's not just the sciences, you know, the mathematics and the numerical stuff and the statistics, because we heard, very much on this stage, people talked about music being mathematical.

We know about politicians, we know about certain cult leaders, but did you know about statisticians?

looking at how people amuse themselves is a really good way to start.

And there's another in joke among statisticians, and that's,

That's what I am to you?

And why just stop there? Why limit myself?

So statistics is all about data.

The statistical likelihood that our plan will succeed is less than 4.3 .

This time it's about cancer testing.

In this unit, I want to show you a problem that will illustrate how deep statistics can actually be.

Well, she had a fantastic model for thinking.

In the center of the game show was a puzzle that puzzles statisticians to the present day.

Don't panic don't panic now, I'll help you through this.

Yet a bar graph can really help you understand the data.

These folks needed a depth of knowledge about medicine or about engineering to bring these ideas to life.

Except he's scientific.

But in most of the rest of the world, that's not the case.

I can't over emphasize how important this is.

Statistics per se.

Or maybe the key to an unknown science we've lost all trace of.

The central limit theorem, and this is, was developed by a statisticians and is used in applied statistics to do inferentials.

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His knowledge of geography is poor.

All of those are now driven by data, including unlikely fields like biology or physics and so many others.

Statistics. As I said, in the first video

I take that from Bob Evalson.

This really flowered in the 2000s in terms of practical applications. But the basics had all been laid by the 1990s.

He extended the knowledge of biochemistry.

But we discovered it by self exploration.