Vital Statistics

"This Book Could Have Been a Tweet"

I like to recommend books to people but I’m noticing a weird trend.

Oct 27 • 

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A Simple Explanation for a Ferocious Debate at the Heart of Statistics

In the beginning, before I knew anything about statistics, I knew it was bitterly divided into two rival camps, two schools of thought that opposed each…

Oct 15 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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September 2025

How Do You Learn Math Fast?

Join me as I try to find out.

Sep 29 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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August 2025

Coming Soon

It's been one week and I'm slowly settling into the Substack format.

Aug 21 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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How I Learned to Think Like a Statistician

The three lessons life taught me about statistics that classes never did

Aug 19 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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The Language of Scientific Elitism

Why Scientific Journals Exclude You (and This Newsletter Doesn’t)

Aug 18 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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The Hardest Part of Learning Statistics

Spoiler: It isn't the math

Aug 15 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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Did ChatGPT Kill Data Science?

Before large language models like ChatGPT, we had traditional machine learning.

Aug 14 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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Everything is Statistics

Statistics is a much bigger idea than most people realize

Aug 13 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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Science is dead. Long live science.

A short explanation of what I'm doing with this newsletter.

Aug 12 • 

Kareem Carr, PhD

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November 2022