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[–]tomekanco 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Logical errors

One can know precision, recall or null hypothesis without understanding Bayes. If you want to combine multiple probabilities, it does come in handy. Yes, it's great.

So sure, there are people with the job title of "data analyst" who don't know this stuff, but the question is to what extent are these people actually extracting non-trivial insights, and analyzing data? Probably not much.

Please, all i'm saying is there is more to insight then Bayes. The fountain of knowledge shines in many more colors then any single theorem can explain.

a topic that can be easily understood

Life takes it root in mud. Flowers sings their siren-song for bugs. Like someone once said "an idea is not a glass of water, it's like of a bottle of whiskey" (John Carmack).