Reading the title of this article, I immediately thought of William S. Gosset, "The Guinness Brewer Who Revolutionized Statistics", earlier in the century. I am sure there are even older examples.

https://priceonomics.com/the-guinness-brewer-who-revolutioni...

When I visited the Guinness Brewery in Dublin a few years ago, I was pleased to note that they have a plaque honoring Gosset/"Student".

If I ever get to Dublin I want to see Hamilton's quaternion plaque on Brougham Bridge.

Free men are not equal; equal men are not free.

Not a meme at all sir. I think it is a good, thoughtful insight that conforms to the Hacker News community standards for what constitutes a "good post" however brief and, according to others, trite it might appear to be.

Interesting, that's the chapter that caused me to finally put the book down. The gist of it was: people not thoroughly trained in statistics aren't good at it.

This is hardly news. In fact, even highly intelligent people struggle with the Monty Hall problem, for instance.