I don’t know exactly how you ended up here, but welcome to my corner of the internet: a place where I try to make sense of the world using… numbers.
A lot of people think statistics is “easy math,” maybe because of the intro courses, or because high school stats class makes it look like just plotting bar charts and calculating averages. But here’s the thing: when you get far enough into calculus, it’s literally statistics. The easy stuff? That’s just the appetizer. The real main course? Fun, weird, and surprisingly deep.
So I decided to start reading things — textbooks, popular science books, random research papers I probably don’t fully understand yet — and write about them. Not like a boring book report. More like: “Here’s what I learned, why it surprised me, and how it connects to something totally random in the world.”
My first companion on this journey is Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan, a book that cheerfully exposes all the ways data can inform, deceive, or just make you question every study you’ve ever trusted. Perfect.
This blog will be a mix of:
- applied stats in strange places
- reading-project reflections
- niche thought spirals
- and occasional chaos
If you like learning things out loud with someone who is winging it but enthusiastic, you’ll probably enjoy this.
Alright. Enough prefacing. Time to peel back the layers of statistics and hope there’s something interesting underneath.
Let’s begin.
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