Re: uncertainty on Forum Discord

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

This is true about confidence intervals.  I never really understood them
until I started working on my spam filter.  Before that, they were just
words on a page.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 17:57:02 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > "As a statistician, the classical answer to uncertanty is to produce 
 > confidence intervals, variance, or other methods of quantifying it. 
 > There are very few other ways forward for practicing statisticians, 
 > which is why confidence intervals became the standard for 
 > representing uncertainty in peer reviewed medical literature since 
 > the 1950s. But does the ordinary layperson have the training or 
 > ability to produce and use confidence intervals when taking a 
 > decision? No, and this failing of math education seriously harms us. 
 > Even undergraduate statistics majors are often not expected to be 
 > able to generate confidence intervals for an arbitrary situation's 
 > outcomes. <@&1333580676695330907>"