"It is true that the equations become more complex but, as a non-mathematician, you can simply accept that the statisticians know what they are doing and use the tool without having to follow what the equations mean."
Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Here, hold my beer while I do this.
Yeah, great pitch, but nope. Unless you know how the raw data was collected and how it was processed, any statistic has to be taken with a ton of salt. And if we are talking potentially lethal applications* there has to be accountability. So show me the data. And what you've done to it.
* Not much harm in Siri sending me to the wrong restaurant. Two tonnes of metal, glass and plastic hurtling down the high street in the wrong direction at full speed, however...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
