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by JumpCrisscross 2618 days ago
> do you think a physics degree or a statistics degree is better suited to doing data analysis, and why?

For finance, physics 100%. (The more experimental, the better.) When you're forced to map your theories to reality, and deal with the divergence, you develop an intuition for a certain set of problems. Those problems recur in commercial data science.

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I'm not sure how this speaks to the superiority of physics over stats in this regard.