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		jhancock on May 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kil... I've read this before. Zed does not provide any details on learning or understanding statistics in this rant.

billswift on May 27, 2009 [–]

Statistics and probability is a major course of study - far more than could be usefully taught in a blog. What he tries to do is to motivate people to learn it - which is the first major step to actually learning it.

jhancock on May 27, 2009 | [–]

ahh..the old "motivation by calling people stupid" trick ;)

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