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#581 - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Understanding The Wonders Of Science
Modern Wisdom
Is It Necessary to Learn Probability and Statistics?
Rishi Sunak, the new prime minister of the UK said that children are going to have to learn maths until the age of 18 now. And throw and make those extra years count. There'll be way more valuable to learn probability and statistics than calculus or even advanced trigonometry. As a physicist, a monasticer physicist, I've had some form of probability and statistics every year of my life since 10th grade through graduate school,. It's not natural to think so. We embrace passionate testimony above data in almost everything. This is why advertisers will show you this product worked for me, rather than just show a bar chart. But no, that doesn't work. You have
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