u/ObjectBubbly3216

hi, I got in a drunk argument last night. 21F (me) vs 21M. I need to know if I am secretly incompetent

i am in an undergraduate engineering degree and have taken data science/statistics.

he is a self appointed nerd who did take some highschool classes of relevance and has done outside reading.

he was claiming statistic science is different than statistic math. that science and math can exist without the other, ect. he kept throwing around words like “hypothesis, theory, ect, statistics, scientific method, statistic method” in places where I have never heard them be used, and where I am not sure they should be used (def non-academic verbiage)

I was arguing that math and science are 🤞, tightly woven together. stats is literally woven into the scientific method. science can’t have much validity without math. I guess almost that science can’t exist without math.

I didn’t even consider statistic math and statistic science being different. Hell it just sounds like different marketing to me.

i probably developed a mental block to this conversation early on and started arguing just to argue. I asked if he knew what R^2 was, and he said “that’s geometry. “ and I said that it’s to compare groups in stats. and he said ”well you have to know R to know what R squared is” … we were drunk.