It's lonely being a statistician :(

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[galenseilis]

"I’ve been studying statistics for over 40 years & I still don’t understand it. The ease with which non-statisticians master it is staggering." -- Stephen John Senn

[pipertripp]

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

[freddytackos]

i am not in anyway involved with doing statistics. i just love hearing a man be real about things.

[zimmejoc]

I have found when someone wants you to keep them honest, what they really mean is they want you to tell them what they are doing is right.

[joelwillis]

I went to grad school later in life with a bit more experience than most of my cohort. Was taking a class taught by our brilliant department chair. He asked where we saw ourselves in 5 years. Everyone had these lofty answers, mine was more or less, "I want to be in a place where my analysis is respected and not treated as something on a checklist". He gave me sly smile. It is tough to find such a job.

[dufflitplaysgames]

Well i wanna thank you for your stats advice and help throughout one of my biggest challenges in my life! I'm out here doing my thesis on pollinator visitations and it's all non-parametric and there are so many glmm's with various families and repeated measures and it's all a mess and even my advisors struggle with the stats and especially doing them in R. So basically your help has saved my sanity trying to analyze all this data and now I'm hopefully graduating in Spring! Keep on keeping on, appreciate you!

[BaptisteJacquet]

I am not a statistician, hence why I follow your videos to learn from someone who actually has the expertise and can guide me to get better at it. I hope you realize how invaluable your videos are. They are both incredibly entertaining and extremely useful. I teach applied statistics (among other things) to my students in psychology, and we're trying to shift the positions to bring them to using linear models. Thank you for your honesty with this video, and I am definitely glad that you are a statistician. It's hard to find someone like you who actually can share the motivation to do statistics.

[galenseilis]

"It is largely because of lack of knowledge of what statistics is that the person untrained in it trusts himself with a tool quite as dangerous as any he may pick out from the whole armamentarium of scientific methodology."

--Edwin B. Wilson (1927), quoted in Stephen M. Stigler, The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom.

[luisa]

I feel you. I have known researchers at a Max Planck Institute telling off one of my students when telling them that their analysis was incorrect. Same old story: t tests are for everything 😅. Do not dispair! I am learning from you and passing the knowledge to my medical students. Keep doing what you are doing!!! I love it ❤

[StatisticsSupreme]

Lovin this. Maybe your best video of all.

[niqueo]

This has basically convinced me to become a statistician.

Hearing your complaints fired me up (in a good way). As frustrating as it is, I seem to have the kind of personality that masochistically enjoys trying to convince people of this sort of thing, especially when ethics are on the line.

You said you were questioning whether to release this video and I'm so glad you did.Thank you SO much for uploading it!

[KJ.]

As a first-year graduate student studying biostatistics, I've found your videos to be the most helpful and digestible resource. They have transformed statistics from a source of instant defeat and frustration into a curious adventure. I am pleased to see you posting again and I hope you find comfort in the supportive online community that values your expertise and anticipates your contributions. I will be sure to think more about my statisticians.

[alvaroramos]

In tyranny by majority, there are situations where you are surrounded by ignorance, so there is need for authority to dispel it with education.

[gabe_psych]

I have a feeling this is going to get shared - a lot. Completely resonate

[TheFromify]

I’ve seen a couple of your videos, and I can say as an educational developer at a technical university, that I can relate so much! People say to me and my colleagues: “I have been lecturing about thermodynamics for 20 years, are you saying I don’t know anything about learning?!?” And we’ll be like “If you’re just talking for 2 hours, then…yes! Then they’ll say: “But my students do really well in the exam; they get good grades, and the course evaluations are great!” And we’ll be like: “Does the exam test for conceptual understanding? And btw are you aware that course evaluations don’t measure learning?” At this point they have stopped listening. We are constantly telling people things they don’t want to know! 🤷‍♀️

[falsificationism]

The point about linear models thumped so hard for me. As a grad student and as an undergrad, I simply followed what I was taught, in all its mind-boggling complexity!

Frustrating that there's a better way, and a LOT of unjustified resistance to change...like with most things.

[Louis-khrx]

Thank you for posting this. I am a retired clinician who has been doing unfunded quantitative analyses with published datasets for several years. I have no formal statistical training and have taught myself how to do some things in R. Your videos have often helped me considerably to better understand what I should be doing. I have been lucky in that a few statisticians in my University department will provide advice sometimes on an ad hoc basis. In my interactions with them, I have tried to stick to 2 rules - talk to them from the beginning (designing the research question) and never do anything against their advice. This seems to have worked out for me, as I have been fortunate enough to get a few papers accepted in decent journals. It is about respect for others and for the data. The more I learn, the more I realize how little I really know. Courage, mon brave! Best wishes, Louis

[simonnylund]

I really like mathematics and am currently doing my masters. To make sure I have a backup plan in case I don’t end up in academia, I’m taking some courses in statistics and programming. I’m glad I found this channel!

[FGabarrot]

I feel you too. And I'm not even a statistician, but seeing colleagues doing wrong things, or telling wrong things to students drives me nuts.

[ThePuggyLittleCorners]

I feel you. I love learnkng about statistics but scenarios like this always happen to me. I like well done things. And people always tend to go with the easy stuff only