What is one field, school of thought, subject, science, or art

>>1897716
All of them.

>>1897716

Mathematical statistics, including probabilities and its various distributions.

>>1897716
Empirical skepticism

>>1897717
How so? And what have you learned so far?

Best thing I got from uni was enjoying nonfiction: textbooks, journal articles, essays

>>1897720
Could you recommend a book? I took up statistics in uni and appreciated it, but was too lazy to do the work to ground in it.

What have you applied your knowledge of it on?

>>1897721
Do you use any specific epistemology for this? It seems as simple as doing good research, staying away from buzzfeed and clickbait, and probably using some theory related to whatever empirical data is in question.

>>1897720

This. Too many people ignore basic concepts like statistical significance, average mode and mean, frequency, distribution, correlation, variance, inference, even basic probability.

I bet a lot of people you know have the gambler's fallacy.

>>1897730
Statistics is applied in all jobs that matter: from medical research studies to market research to any kind of analysis of data to take decisions from business to government. Any job that has nothing to do with statistics is highly useless because it is based on nothing.

>>1897755
As far as statistical techniques go, I've got some knowledge on ANOVAs, t-tests, regression analyses, and a little bit more. Anything more I should add there? I've got SPSS but I'm not sure how I could get a leg up as an average wage-earner running statistics.

>>1897763
I would then recommend the Oeuvre: N. Mukhopadhyay, Probability and Statistical Inference. This is master's level statistics, enough to get deeper.

>>1897771
Thanks. Looking at it right now, definitely gonna take a lot of practice before it gets applicable. Might actually look for an introduction before I read this.