> We don’t need statistics to learn about the world.

A sentence, written by the author on, commented by me on and read by the HN community on devices, which exist only thanks to 80-90 years of rigorous, statistics based QA in engineering, especially in mechanical/hardware engineering.

Anyhow, after spending years on a team filled with social science PHDs, I would not waste my time on reading papers about statistical analysis done by social scientist.