"Making a Better World: One P-value at a Time" By Kim Martineau

“Making a Better World: One P-value at a Time” By Kim Martineau

Statistics lecturer and amateur dancer Wayne Lee talks about his experience as a Taiwanese-American and explains why he left Silicon Valley to teach statistics and how this corner of mathematics can help us all learn to be more open minded.

Statistics may seem pretty cut and dry, but Wayne T. Lee is on a mission to prove otherwise.

“I know it sounds crazy,” he said. “But statistics can make the world a better place.”

Read the full Columbia News article here

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