Paula is irritated that she has to learn about statistics in her psychology major. She asks you why other sciences don’t need to rely on statistics, but psychology does. Which of the following is the most accurate way to answer her? “In psychology, we study people. People have an intuitive understanding of Simpson’s paradox, so we have to use statistics to get around that problem.” “In psychology, we study people. People are way more complicated than the subjects of other sciences, so we need statistics to answer our questions.” “That’s not true. Other sciences like physics use statistics even more than psychology does, so count yourself lucky.” “You’re right. We use statistics so much in psychology because of outdated norms in the field.”
