[cultofmetatron]

you literally cant do regression analysis without calculus.

[y-curious]

Like, on the backend? You can't run code without electricity, but FAANG doesn't teach that in their onboarding

[1718627440]

Yeah electricity is generally thought at school, because most pupils don't even do their homework, without electricity (light). Your employee isn't responsible for your education.

[tptacek]

No? You literally can't derive regression procedures without it, but you don't need to. You can just do least-squares.

[srean]

Along the happy path yes.

But when things break and you have to understand why, or you have to fix it, or even describe the problem in some detail that someone else is able to guide you to fix it, it sure helps to have an idea of how it works.

[tptacek]

So then my only rebuttal here is I think the original claim was overstated.

[srean]

If I were a pedant I would say it depends on how much of a lifting the word "analysis" is doing there. In any case you already got my point.

[9rx]

Not teaching calculus does not imply not learning calculus.