Comment Re:Difficulty? (Score 1) 908
Statisticians are still people, and people are susceptible to lazy thinking, confirmation bias, framing effects, and a host of other problems.
But yes, assuming we manage to overcome our inherent limitations when looking at problems and claims, statistics is a necessary skill for a human bullshit-detector. Statistics by itself does not confer the ability to analyse a claim and place it in the proper context.