>study stats >you can feel all those theoretical physicists and mathematicians view you as a peer when you say that. >all the psychology and medicine chicks want to be sympathetic to you and/or ask really nicely for stats help (that's only beta if you can't say no, otherwise it's just a plus) >doctor want's to be my mate because he has occasional stats questions, so he really takes the time (also on my medical issues), gives good quality medical service
And that all happened within a few months of being able to say "I study stats" or at least "I will study stats soon". It feels like the whole world likes and respects you when you say it. It's an incredible difference compared to when I did business administration.
Why do people always put stats on a pedestal? It's literally mean median and mode and one other m word i cant remember.
Brandon Morris
>all the psychology and medicine chicks want to be -sympathetic- to you and/or ask really nicely for stats help (that's only beta if you can't say no, otherwise it's just a plus) Translation error, meant to say they want to be likable/nice
Also >write schedule in spring schedule thread >nobody laughs about your modules or calls them memes
Juan Hernandez
Well, just last week there was a mathematician (MSc finished, working now) and he said at some occasion "that's typical about US mathematicians" and meant me and him. I almost came in my pants.
As I said, I studied business administration before. Nobody wanted to be in a group with me.
Cooper Baker
You forgot to mention data science which is a hot meme field right now.
Nathan Ward
>being replaceable by microsoft excel Am I missing something?
Brayden Smith
I don’t know man. I think there will always be a need for us statisticians. Like people that that ring all the doorbells and get all the surveys filled out. Or counting all the defect products at a factory. It is also very commonly necessary to calculate a mean, some big companies sometimes even need to compute a median or this quantile stuff.
Logan Lewis
>mathematicians 80% mental masturbastion no one care about. Still thinks that the world is deterministic.
>statisticians Study randomness in the world like real alpha. Literally called the logic and inference of all sciences. Spawned many useful theories in many different fields, an important part in AI research which is called the future of humanity.
You are right, they are not on peers but cucked by statisticians.
Jackson Wilson
Certainly as a med student I wish I had a bro statistician to ask questions and offer advice to in turn.
Elijah Cruz
>one other m word i cant remember range
David Jackson
>Literally called the logic and inference of all sciences >Literally doesn't know what "literally" means >Literally doesn't know what either logic, inference, nor science are >Literal stemlet
Isaac Clark
*Mrange
Gavin Evans
moment This. In my department, nobody respects the stats graduate students. Real Analysis, Analytic Number Theory, Algebraic Geometry and Algebraic Number Theory are some of the (optional) pre-reqs for the various stats phd degrees. None of the current stats students have taken anything other than the babby version (subgraduate level, i.e., sophomore/junior-undergraduate) of real analysis. ALL of them cheat in order to pass (with less than a 50%) graduate real analysis. They're ALL brainlets, each and every one of them.
James Bailey
>Hurr Gamma distribution >Hurr Bayesian methods >Hurr actuarial science >Hurr stochastic methods Literally brainlet math. Literally just calculus.
Christian Nguyen
t. undergrad that doesn't know what measure theory is
Elijah Smith
I'm in the same boat OP, actually. I love being a statistician. Did my BS and MS in Math.
Btw serious question, has anyone here taken a statistical mechanics class? I want to take one as part of my stats PhD. What's it like?!
Evan Green
Most of the professors in my Biostats program have an MS Math. Many of them have PhDs in math. The only one i know of, without a graduate math degree, earned her stats degrees from Harvard.
Going from Math to Biostats, I'm using topology and dynamical systems to study neuroscience. Suck a dick.
Sebastian Powell
It's no secret that maths students go into stats programs because they want to cash in on something easy or want to make more money than they would as an academic or because they weren't strong enough at real maths.
stats is a very shallow, accessible field compared to other parts of mathematics.
Charles Garcia
it's just physics but it has a couple of distributions
it isn't really to do with stats at all.
you won't be calculating any estimators or doing much modelling. you'll just work through a bunch of dense integrals with lots of constants and labels.
Lucas Bailey
>stats is a very shallow, accessible field compared to other parts of mathematics. ding ding ding!
Alexander Evans
brainlet
Xavier Scott
>not deterministic >indeterminstic you're an edgy one aren't you?
Ayden Sanders
these
Easton Wood
>statisticians >Spawned many useful theories in many different fields
user, you're confusing stats with math, don't worry this is a normal phase for all brainlets who attempt to learn about things too advanced for them. But you need to remember that people will laugh at you if you continue to say stupid shit.
Parker Lopez
>doesn't know stats is a branch of math
Sebastian Myers
there's a reason they're different degrees, at the undergrad and grad levels
Liam Jackson
>doesn't know stats is the least mathy-est field in math
Stats is literally one of the only fields in math that discourages you from starting from axiomatic first principles, and prompts you to use """empirical data""" to derive """hypotheses""" for everything, instead of crafting actual PROOFS.
Benjamin Price
>he didn't know about the theortical and mathematical statistics
Levi Robinson
Measure theory literally is just calculus. Oh boy it's a sigma algebra! How advanced! Martingales and conditional probabilities? Oh my!
Bentley Robinson
stats isnt real math dipshit, its just number crunching that somehow manages to be less respectable than basic arithmetic
Jacob Clark
don't be an idiot. most of real analysis for e.g. quals in a PhD is about measure theory.
Liam Reed
It should legit be only 15% of the qualifying exams you take after your second semester in grad school. Nobody has "measure theory" as their primary research focus. It's a tool that's useful for measuring things. Beyond that, it's one of the smallest hurdles in a rigorous maths PhD program.
Isaac Stewart
there's tons of people with measure theory of finite measure as their primary research interest, you know?
Angel Morales
There are also a ton of people seriously studying hypergeometric series and lemniscatic and equianharmonic functions, despite that being out of fashion/use since the late 19th century.
Liam Wood
>going door to door asking questions >Literally something sub 90 iq niggers can do on minimum wage
my field is algebraic geometry though. I'm just not an autist about it
James Jenkins
t.undergrad
Xavier Lopez
It is? Okay. Define the local fundamental group, and connect this with links and singularities of algebraic varieties.
Jose Robinson
uhh it's the fundamental group of a (good) neighborhood around an isolated singularity of a germ. it's trivial iff the variety is nonsingular at v.
I mean, I'm still a student. you don't need to be questioning me just because you want to feel entitled to be an asshole to people who study measure theory
Carter Hall
do your own homework brainlet
Connor Carter
>Only took first year stats the post
What you're saying is equivalent to saying mathematicians are useless because we have calculators.
Aiden Turner
Are you this much of an asshole in real life?
Jaxon Clark
>being this bootyblasted on Veeky Forums
Luis Johnson
>I was just pretending to be retarded
Brayden Price
>classic user hiding the fact that he is unlikable behind a facade of trolling
Carter Collins
I'm gonna retract that post, I spent the last few hours trying to get biometrics and I still don't understand shit.
Maybe it's easier if you know actual math.
Carson Wood
>t. assblasted mathfags See pic related
Lucas Ross
>mathfags Why the homophobia?
Jace Carter
is this post-ironic?
Jason Peterson
What is homophobic about it?
Dominic Howard
>What is homophobic about it? Fag is a homophobic slur.
Zachary Lee
>Fag is a homophobic slur. No it is not. Perhaps English is not your first language?
Brandon Diaz
They're right actually, Veeky Forums has a long history of homophobia. The "fag" suffix that you see here actually comes from the word "faggot", a homophobic slur often used on /b/ and other boards.
Thomas Williams
No, that post is ironic.
Robert Russell
It's also a unit of measurement for bundles of sticks, and slang for cigarette.
idk, I'd be more offended at being called a cancer stick than gay desu.
Nathaniel Rivera
>I am so unoffended by things I don't even see why fag is an offensive word
>I transcend common knowledge colloquial english
I hope this is a "hurr durr, I was only pretending to be retarded" thread
Matthew White
I legit don't give a fuck what you think about me. Perhaps you should learn how to not get upset over words written by anonymous mathematicians.
Matthew Walker
>a homophobic slur often used on /b/ and other boards It's also a term of endearment on /b/.
Ryder Ortiz
>I am so illiterate that I couldn't even deduce that fag was still being called offensive
Joshua Wood
>how many levels of irony are you on my man (you) because you kept at it
