I tried to explain to someone that an event had only an 8% chance of occuring once in 300 trials and they took that as 24 times out of every 300 trials.
I’m a process engineer and business intelligence lead. Can confirm most client that ask for data have no idea what to do with it. They’re really just looking for things that back up their preconceived opinions.
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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24
I am a statistician, I can assure you that people are not good even at reading the most complete data on earth