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[–]southpaw[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Might I ask why?

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I love the simplicity of math. How you can follow a process and get a result. It’s nothing like life. And I love seeing patterns in things. I am very curious about the world and the behavioural patterns I see. Investigation and whatnot.

Also, once I understood stats I could see how they are used to manipulate public opinion and I can free myself from that manipulation by being able to interpret actual studies. So many movements right now are misreporting studies or cherry-picking, and that is allowing them to force a perspective that is dangerous for the general population. Someone in another thread on gender critical was using a study of no significant findings to disprove some stuff about trans people and it was obvious to me right away. People can’t trick you when you know their language better than they do