[guitarbill]

(I think?) I agree, but this post didn't make me want to learn more about stats.

This might be because for me it feels like 20% knowledge will work for 80% of situations. Maybe it's a fundamental disconnect; am I going to mess around R when Python works and is more general purpose (but to be fair, there's loads of brilliant Python stats code out there).

At least the standard deviation tip makes sense to me. Yay?

Edit: Man, tried to read up on some stuff and stats is hard. I'm definitely going to go easy on the performance guys in future. Any more tips for getting better at this kind of analysis?