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Discussion on: How important is stats knowledge in software development?

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As mentioned before, the ability to understand statistics is essential to understanding time world.

One addition is that our industry has removed the veil that is usually between engineers and customers. You don't necessarily need stats to create functionality, but if you want to conceptualize a problem and make progress on a solution, you need stats.

As someone who has to think about the product and how is evaluated I need to design experiments and drive metrics. I need to understand team performance, to decide if I should automate something, to figure out roi on decisions, demographics of features etc.