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Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 weeks ago by LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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It will widen your horizon, they said. And here I was, foolishly thinking I could get away with half-assing statistics during my degree.

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[–] dotdi@lemmy.world 59 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

As somebody with a degree in bioinformatics, I have never seen something more true in my whole life.

Some more lies from my time in academia:

  • “Planning and executing medical trials” = 6 months of statistics
  • “Machine Learning” = 6 months of statistics
  • “Pattern Recognition” = 6 months of statistics
  • “Health Data Science” = 6 months of statistics
  • Biostatistics = lol jk just 6 months of statistics
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Biostatistics was the only part of my biomedical engineering PhD course load that I enjoyed

Guess who doesn't have a PhD

[–] socsa@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My dog

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Your dog and I have a lot in common

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

Almost every Baby Boomer ever.

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 weeks ago

I thought the punch line was that biostatistics is actual biology, and biology is statistics :)

[–] keepthepace 4 points 3 weeks ago

A someone not in the field (CS/Machine learning) what did you expect these to be?