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Are you sure you replied to the correct story. This story is about teaching more statistics and less calculus to students as it is vastly more practical for them.


These are consequences of a greater understanding of probability and statistics.


No, not really. You seem to be assuming that a greater understanding of probability would lead to decision-making that takes only probabilities into account and not, say, one's morality.

But that's a ridiculous thing to assume.




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