Reflection on how to liew with statistics

Quite often, we laughed at the fact that most of us are skeptics in class. Initially, we took the class for many reasons, to fulfill a requirement in honors, to discuss with someone that keeps bringing numbers, or as in my case, to expand our knowledge in statistics. I think that the biggest lesson I learned in this class was to make a judgement out of every number I hear. Ask for the sources. Ask for the methods. Question the incentives. Simple things and rules of thumb to take into account in the situation. I am glad i took this class, not only because of the lessons I learned, but because I was able to expand my understanding and skepticism.

-Xavi