Statistics for differentiating between groups?

[sclancy27]

Statistics is what your heart surgery will be based on. Such snide remarks ignore the fact that nearly everything that benefits your life was developed and applied through statistics.

You can go through life without understanding much about math, physics, biology, etc. And yes, statistics, but you would be a fool to denigrate any of them. They are all part of what allows you to live as you do.

Yes. Just because people watch other idiots butcher the use of statistics doesn't mean that proper application and modeling is wrong. If you asked a simple probability question 99.9% of people would get it wrong.