Ladies Tasting Tea (New Edition)

The reason why statistics is abused and misused is actually because it is too useful. To a certain extent, it can be said that it has changed the way we deal with problems. This is a statistical epic. Over the past 100 years, statistics has grown from nothing to something spectacular. A history of the development of statistics is a history of continuous innovation of the existing scientific system. This book describes this process in a simple and profound way, providing readers with a feast of ideas. This is a legendary story book about an all-powerful statistics master. Looking back at that magnificent era, faces passed by like water. One afternoon in Cambridge, England, a woman claimed that the afternoon tea tasted different between adding tea to milk and adding milk to tea. All the scientists present scoffed at her statement, but a visiting thin gentleman, R. A. Fisher, proposed to use scientific methods to test this woman's hypothesis... This book starts with this British lady drinking afternoon tea, leading readers to review "statistics", the most widely used science, to understand the development process and application of several important theories, to get close to the statisticians behind the scenes, and to see what kind of changes statistics have brought to today's world. This is a practical book not to be missed in the era of artificial intelligence. Nobel Prize winner in economics Thomas Sargent even believes that artificial intelligence is just an extension of statistics. People who can actually train statistical thinking in daily life will enjoy the world better.