[danans]

Studying history, the classics, anthropology, etc may not increase analytical ability directly, but it increases the breadth of an individual's understanding of how human society got to where we are today, warts and all.

That knowledge is a very important input to any logical or statistical analysis, or resulting system, that affects people's lives.

It just may not be important for someone tasked creating a Bayesian model.

History is especially important for people to learn because without it, history can be (and is) used as a tool by those who have studied it against them.