Thanks @neuralfoundry. I completely agree. There's such a rush to get to the more advanced stuff that a lot of useful context is filtered out. A while back a wrote a series of articles for Significance on the historical context of some key statistical concepts. Here's the one on Pearson in case you are interested: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01276.x
Thanks @neuralfoundry. I completely agree. There's such a rush to get to the more advanced stuff that a lot of useful context is filtered out. A while back a wrote a series of articles for Significance on the historical context of some key statistical concepts. Here's the one on Pearson in case you are interested: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2019.01276.x