As biologists, we probably don’t care much about statistics until we actually need to use it, which is at the very end of the experiments or before the write up. I’d made this mistake throughout my degree. Looking back, what I should have done was gain some basic knowledge in stats early one and throughout my degree. This would have made my life a lot easier when interpreting data, write up, reading papers and asking good questions in seminars.

I’m not saying we should read the whole 300 pages or so book on statistics. Read up on frequently-used stats in biology such as T-test, one-way & two-way ANOVA and their non-parametric counterparts, survival analysis, dissociation constant and so on. I assure you that knowing the basics of these stats will make you life a lot easier as a biologist.

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