What Grinds Your Gears? :)

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Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

That's a coincidence: I got into a heated discussion (pissy argument) with a co-worker about that very subject today. This guy is the biggest stats modelling cheerleader I have ever met, which is not saying much since most people don't walk around talking people's ears off about cross validation etc.

He's one of those guys who talks about Pew studies as if they were handed down on stone tablets. I argue with him all the time that they don't know squat about what the general population think, just what the people who are bored enough to answer their surveys think.

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I hope that by the end of this semester maybe a quarter that makes sense to me. I'm taking an intro stats course at the moment. I'm sure it's proving extra challenging on account of the fact that I haven't been inside a math classroom in over a decade.