Status Updates From علم الإحصاء: مقدمة قصيرة جداً

“you know that the driver and pilot rarely crash, and the restaurant rarely serves contaminated food, so you are happy to take the risk that this time things will be okay.”

except when you are in final destination🤠

I didn't think it was possible to sleep as a consequence of reading a book. Here it goes: Chapter four was, indeed, one of the most boring chapters written in the history of mankind, and i can thankfully comment on this considering I have read A LOT of probability but god, this was simply AWFUL in text.

“If the farmer is also interested in the effectiveness of low and high levels of humidity, temperature, hours of sunlight, and so on, we see that we will soon run out of greenhouses.”

I love it when academics throw in a little dad joke here and there like yes, you go girl! 😭🫶🏻

“One slight complication arises from the fact that the variance involves squared values. This implies that the variance itself is measured in “square units.” If we measure the productivity of farms in terms of tons of corn, the variance of the values is measured in “tons squared.”

AND HENCE STANDARD DEVIATION IS VARIANCE UNDERROOT. i wish they'd explain it this well in schools :(

“Contrary to what fortune-tellers may have us believe, numbers are not lucky or unlucky”

so numerology is a hoax according to the author, which i believe is not entirely true, considering it's such a huge part of many cultures.

such a scholar, i slept whilst reading and didn't wake until midnight <3