Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All (2005)
Serious question: who here who has at least a BS in CS didn't have a mandatory stats class where you learned all about picking sample sizes to give you an accuracy you're happy with or that an average without a standard deviation is nigh-meaningless?<p>It's just a fact of our profession, there is a significant percentage of people who just slap together APIs and have zero understanding of the maths behind it.<p>I don't see why it takes Zed 1000 words to say it or why he has to get sanctimonious about it.