Introduction to Real Statistics

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://azprojects.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/introduction-to-real-statistics/ This is the introductory motivational chapter of a revolutionary new textbook "Real Statistics: A Radical Approach". It explains how the positivist philosophical foundations of statistics make it impossible to understand central concepts like probability and causality. To correct this problem, we need to rebuild the entire discipline on foundations of a realist philosophy of science, as advocated by Islamic epistemological principles