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Scientists of all sorts use statistics and think about probability all the time. Physicists, for example, have developed many methods in statistics. Medical scientists use statisitics to determine the association of diseases with human genes. They also use it to decide if the results of experiments are trustworthy. Meteorologists express their predictions in statistical terms such as 70% chance of rain. When experiments are performed repeatedly, the results can be analyzed to see if they get answers that are close enough together to be trusted. Go to Google: http://www.google.com/ and type in the name of a branch of science and the word: statistics. Biology, physics, medincine, forestry, meteorology, geology, engineering, computer science,.... you name the science, and statistics is used in it. You will get hundreds of links to web sites that describe the vlaue of statisics in science. My personal opinion is that schools should teach statistics more and trigonometry less. No one uses trigonometry (well, almost no one, anyway) but everyone needs to reason about probability almost everyday. David Winsemius.
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