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Why do statisticians answer silly questions that no one ever asks?
Author(s) -
Briggs Matt
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2012.00542.x
Subject(s) - ask price , computer science , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , business , finance
“Other people don't understand us”, wail statisticians. But do statisticians try to understand what other people want? Statisticians answer silly questions that no one in their right minds would ever ask, says Matt Briggs . Instead they should give useful answers to the questions that people actually do ask.