With a group of friends I've found that there seems to be an issue with currently popular statistics software (SPSS, SAS and the like) and statistics in general -- I've heard countless students in e.g. Psychology that need to use such packages for analyzing their research complain about how complicated and impossible to work with this software seems to be, but also about how difficult to grasp statistics is in general.I'm curious to validate this apparent problem. If you've had a problem that required statistics to solve, what were the biggest frustrations or roadblocks that you've encountered? How did you end up solving them?