Relearning Statistics in my 30s: What I learned from Statistical Rethinking

Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath might be the best academic book I've ever read. This is probably because I’ve never read an academic book purely out of interest before, but this one is definitely different. It has good storytelling, irrefutable arguments to convince you to adopt a Bayesian perspective, and it literally teaches you how to do statistics. I’d like to share here why this…