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>people trying to use math to find the "REAL Numbers"
NUMBER ONE RULE OF STATISTICS:
NEVER. EVER!!! TRUST THE MATHEMATICIANS!!!
THEY WILL TRY AND POISON YOUR MIND WITH VOODOO WITCHCRAFT LIKE "Safe Extrapolations" AND "Expected Trends from Previous Quarterly Results" AND "Assumptions based on our Formula, as is Consistent with prior data"
THEY'RE TRYING TO SELL YOU SOMETHING!!!!!
STATISTICS IS NOT AND WILL N E V E R B E A STUDY OF MATH! IT IS A SOCIAL SCIENCE, AN OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCE, AND WILL ALWAYS BE ONE!!! MATHEMATICS CAN BE APPLIED TO STATISTICS TO MEASURE AND FIND OUTLIERS BUT IT CAN NEVER, EVER BE USED TO REPLACE FINDINGS!!
THAT IS NOT THE PATH TO STATISTICAL SCIENCE!! REPLACING DATA IS THE PATH TO BECOMING A FUCKING STEM-FAG WITH A HARD "M!!!"