Sarah Worthy
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

I really like the way you laid out this article and the one about statistics. I think one reason we don’t see a lot of statistics used anymore is that as we have more data, we have less uncertainty. Before we had tools to collect web analytics, for example, we might do a survey of our customers via phone or email and get about 5–10% response rate. This requires statistics to extrapolate the other 90–95% who didn’t give us any response. Now, we can use in-app analytics to measure every customer’s interaction from start to finish, resulting in us having ~99–100% of the data.

I haven’t heard that statistics was dead, and as someone who’s been in data science and had statistics in college — I definitely still use statistics almost daily, but more often than not, I’m using statistics to ask questions and ensure the data and reports I’m reading are calculated correctly, and less doing the statistical calculations myself. I definitely don’t think statistics is dead, and this is a helpful article to bookmark and share with people who don’t understand the topic.

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Sarah Worthy

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