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Originally Posted by Tinordi
What makes someone a "statistician" a degree?
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Well yes. But the degree is merely a reflection of one's successful comprehension and application of skills derived from the years of specialised training.
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Originally Posted by Tinordi
...I'll take the guys who both understand stats and are applying them to hockey.
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So would I, but I'm not at all convinced that the bloggers I am most familiar with have enough of a clear understanding of how to do advanced statistics to make them altogether useful. I imagine that I could read a book or take a basic introductory course and produce the same sorts of analyses. But I am also fairly confident that this limited "training" would no doubt fail at various points in my amateur attempts to measure, apply, and interpret data.
*EDIT* Upon further reflection, I now wonder how useful it is to be both a competent observer of the sport and a trained statistician. I am now starting to think that certain benefits would follow from an entirely blind system of data processing. How much does one's own expectations and intuitions actually interfere with statistical results?