Statistician: AI turns replication into pushbutton, and math is catching up
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-08
RexDouglass argues that applied statistics is largely people doing math they don't fully understand — and that the cultural fix has always been GitHub-style replicability, where a more expert outsider can inspect the mess. AI, he says, has made that process pushbutton, so the discipline is just catching up with the times. A follow-up reply sarcastically mocks the gatekeeping culture that says only those who already understand the solution should participate.
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