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by bobdosherman 1186 days ago
I used call point-and-click statistical software (like JMP) was the same as giving people who didn't know what they were doing a loaded gun. But democratizing access to advanced statistics...yada yada...who cares about asymptotic theory and identification and what not. Then R and Python and APIs that try to abstract as much as possible, and more loaded guns. But the talk of those loaded guns are really just phd-holders being obnoxious to some degree (but not completely wrong because stats can be misused...). But this really does seem like dumping a bunch of loaded guns all over the place. Nope