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• Justas@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Plenty of people thought that I will be a scientist but I did one standard deviation calculation for a test and noped out of the idea.

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  • Sergio@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve worked as a scientist for around 10 years (and as a research programmer in various labs for 5-6 years before that) and have never done a standard deviation calculation.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because the automated tools do it for you, right?

      Right???

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      • Sergio@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        See, when I was in grad school I once had to calculate an agreement metric from a bunch of labels on a corpus. No problem I said, the math is easy, I can write a script in an hour or so. Fam that mfing script took me two freaking days bc there were always some little bugs or weird edge cases I hadn’t thought of. So the deal I made with myself was: I would use Matlab or a stats library or something like that, BUT I would make sure that I understood the math beforehand.

        But for whatever reason, I never had to calculate a standard deviation. Thinking about it, someone else might have done that for papers I was co-author on, though.

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