I am a practical person, let me give you my answer

Throughout everyone’s academic career, the most common explanations you will hear regarding the justification of every subject might be everything but practical.To question the existence of Mathematics in the academic curriculum, on top of all, strikes the doubt and the curiosity of every student who has ever undergone the tedious process of learning.

Normal Distribution Formula: is it worth memorizing it? I think not

Allow me to propose a practical approach to solve this riddle once for all. The following is my solution:

Mathematics makes you aware of existing solutions to your problem

Everything is on the internet

One of the most common ways to debate the current state of Education worldwide is by attacking the mandatory practice of memorizing information. I can agree with this statement only up to a certain degree. The fact that information is available online, it does not prevent us from the need of memorizing the most essential part of it (let’s say the meta structures of the subjects themselves).Being a Developer, I learned one (and even more) valuable lesson: I have to spend cumulative hours, often, searching for solutions already coded by other engineers on the web. If I am unable to find the solution, I have to invent one myself.

Example

To offer you a practical example, let’s assume you have to tackle the following problem for work (by the way, you cannot leave it to an Analyst, too easy):You have collected 1000 performance ratings of workers in your company, and you need to make a comparison to 900 ratings from the previous year. Assuming you know nothing of math, you would have a lot of trouble comparing a dataset of 1000 samples with 900 of the next year.

Comparison of two datasets of different size

• How do you compare uneven datasets?What tools are you going to use to make the comparison?Which metric are you going to use?

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