Learn Statistics. Today.

It’ll make you a smarter consumer of information, and a better citizen.

The world is a messy place.
On the Internet, every single minute more content is created than you could read in your entire life.
A growing percentage of this content is represented by fake news, and people believe to them.
Ads are full of made-up statistics because, let’s face it, numbers improve one’s credibility. Numbers are attractive. People say: “He have numbers supporting his claims, he must be right!”.
A British Prime Minister once said:

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”.

The thing is that you don’t have to be a world-class data scientist to benefit from learning statistics. Everyone should learn at least the basics of this field, because is becoming more and more important in order to avoid being manipulated and to become a better citizen of the world.

By learning stats you will be able to distinguish the good from the bad, you will be a better decision maker, you will react to information instead of being hit by it. We all should learn how to properly consume information as we regularly do with other substances, like alcohol.

The first step is to question everything you read or hear. Double-check everything, be skeptical, treat everything as false until proven to be true, not the contrary.

Statistics is everywhere, and its presence around us will only grow. Sometimes it’s used well, sometimes it’s not. If you don’t learn to distinguish the two cases, you’re screwed up.