I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Even forgetting software development, some basic knowledge of statistics is insanely useful as a person. There are a lot of bad things in life you can avoid by just having some basic knowledge of statistics.
In actual software development, it's useful because of how it encourages you to think more than anything else, especially when dealing with debugging. Being able to reason properly about how much impact a bug actually has, as well as deducing logical reproduction conditions from dozens of disjoint bug reports, is an insanely useful skill, and it's much easier if you approach such things from a statistics perspective.
Personally though, I've found my knowledge (however limited) of set theory and graph theory to be far more useful for most other aspects of development than my knowledge of stats, even factoring in that 'way you think' bit.
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Even forgetting software development, some basic knowledge of statistics is insanely useful as a person. There are a lot of bad things in life you can avoid by just having some basic knowledge of statistics.
In actual software development, it's useful because of how it encourages you to think more than anything else, especially when dealing with debugging. Being able to reason properly about how much impact a bug actually has, as well as deducing logical reproduction conditions from dozens of disjoint bug reports, is an insanely useful skill, and it's much easier if you approach such things from a statistics perspective.
Personally though, I've found my knowledge (however limited) of set theory and graph theory to be far more useful for most other aspects of development than my knowledge of stats, even factoring in that 'way you think' bit.