The need to rethink statistical education.

The ways statistics are taught in many universities is detrimental to science

Merlin Schäfer
4 min readMay 1, 2021

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I originally planned to write an article about Bayesian vs. Frequentists Methods. Midway through my writing, however, I realized that the issue isn’t really understanding the difference and then “choosing” aside. Both schools of thought have good reasons to be…

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Merlin Schäfer

Data Scientist at HMS Analytical Software with a psychology background. Interested in all things “data”, cloud and AI.