The Psychological Reasons Statistics Training Is So Bad

Statistics teaching often fails for a psychological reason: humans learn through stories (frameworks), and they defend those stories by filtering evidence. That same mechanism makes “decision-tree stats” feel like arbitrary rules to students, and it makes instructors resistant to switching to a model-first approach. I demo the same analysis two ways and run a few quick experiments to show the story-defense system in action. To see my videos about stories in psychology, see    • Persuasion as Story   To get 20% off, use coupon code christmas_simplistics_20 To take my new February simplistics class, see: https://simplistics.net/course/simpli... To take my live mixed models class in January, see: https://simplistics.net/course/introd... For the self-guided Mixed Models course: https://simplistics.net/course/mixed/ For the self-guided visualization course: https://simplistics.net/course/random... For the self-guided simplistics course: https://simplistics.net/course/univar... For the self-guided R course: https://simplistics.net/course/introd... For other classes, see: https://simplistics.net/all-courses/ For consulting, see: https://simplistics.net/product/stati...