04.25.06
Programmers & Stats - lethal!
“Programmers need to learn statistics or I will kill them all”
(catchy title - i remembered it :)
http://www.zedshaw.com/blog/programming/programmer_stats.html
From the author…
I have a major pet peeve that I need to confess. I go insane when I hear programmers talking about statistics like they know shit when it’s clearly obvious they do not. I’ve been studying it for years and years and still don’t think I know anything. This article is my call for all programmers to finally learn enough about statistics to at least know they don’t know shit. I have no idea why, but their confidence in their lacking knowledge is only surpassed by their lack of confidence in their personal appearance.
There’s also a bunch of other writtings there that I think may interests to other byteclubbers.