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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
Follow Ether's lead on this: concentrate on the physics while you are young, and save the statistics for your later career (or retirement). Too many engineers today rely on statistical inference to make decisions, when a relatively small dose of physics would have provided the required insight much more directly.
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I have a feeling there's a story behind this. Anything you can share?
(I'd say statistics are extremely useful in quality management for high-volume production, in processes that have already been well-characterized and refined. But that's probably not the scenario being criticized.)