Advice to the Statistically Terrified
Some subjects
of study are like eating a pie. You do it one bite at a time, each
bite takes you a bit further, and eating half the pie means that you
have absorbed half of it. Personally, I think business administration
subjects are a bit like this. If you are studying the ”four
Ps” of marketing (Product, Price, Placement, Promotion) then
you could read or understand only half of it and still have picked
up various strands and bits that you could apply.
I don’t think mathematics and statistics are like eating a pie. It’s sometimes hard to feel like you’ve gotten anywhere at all even after you’ve been studying and reading for a while. My metaphor for studying these subjects is vending machines. You know ...
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