Programmers need to learn Stats or I will kill them all ...

[threaded]

You IT guys make me laugh - you're so ignorant and narrow minded that you can only concieve of a binary world of "permies" and contractors.
You need to realise that I'm no longer in IT and my salary scale is not constrained by being an IT techie - so I'm not on your £70K max that most permies can expect.

but don't worry Dim, you carry on with your web programming

Yeah, he's now got OTE!

and a car with an 'i' in badge.

[BrilloPad]

"I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. "

Why advertise how stupid you are?

[Jeebo72]

Hey you go you limited IT guys, try to read and learn:

http://www.zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html

You'll enjoy this numbnut ... I used to be a Statistician. First proper job after my Maths degree …

[sasguru]

You'll enjoy this numbnut ... I used to be a Statistician. First proper job after my Maths degree …

Many people work in statistics, doesn't make them a statistician.

HTH

[DimPrawn]

Mean, mode, median. What's the big fuss?

[EternalOptimist]

I liked this bit

' I really can’t blame them since they were probably told in college that logic and reason are superior to evidence and observation'

these are the fools who stick to their models and insist the planet is warming when the evidence and observation tells them that it is cooling.

[threaded]

I liked this bit

' I really can’t blame them since they were probably told in college that logic and reason are superior to evidence and observation'

these are the fools who stick to their models and insist the planet is warming when the evidence and observation tells them that it is cooling.

There's a quote about Aristotle, and his logical determination that women have more teeth than men; even though he was married 3 times, he never bother to actually try counting them.

[Jeebo72]

Many people work in statistics, doesn't make them a statistician.

HTH

Ha, your life is probably so painfull. Prob why you drank so much. All that worry about having to feed the kids while doing a monotonous SAS job for the clever people who wrote the formulae ...

I used to be a Statistician. Just cos you use SAS and have written down y=ax+b you prob can call yourself statsguru.

Now MATLAB, that's where it was at ...

[Jeebo72]

Mean, mode, median. What's the big fuss?

Thing is, that's about it ;-)

[sasguru]

Mean, mode, median. What's the big fuss?

these are the fools who stick to their models and insist the planet is warming when the evidence and observation tells them that it is cooling.

You see that's why you guys will never really earn the big bucks.
You're limited.

HTH