Everyone is a born Statistician!

Every one of us is born with some innate talent, knowledge and instinct. And some are acquired. Statistics can be called an instinct of our subconscious mind which guides us and helps us to make decisions in our conscious state.

An instinct is an innate or acquired, pattern of behaviour in animals . We humans have instincts as well such as fear of wild animals, fear of falling and many others. Statistics seems to be one of our innate instinct. 

The basic of statistics is probability which is related to uncertainty.We can't foresee our future, thus our future is always led by uncertainty. And we have to make decisions in the face of those uncertainty by making proper analysis through our past observations and probability of occurrence in future.

 Like the saying 'a burnt child dreads the fire'. We can take the child's burning experience as his/her past observation or in terms of data analysis, his/her train data. Since, he/she is only a child and might have faced only one such experience his/her train dataset is very small or to say is only one experience. Based on that experience whenever he sees a fire, his subconscious mind reminds him of his past experience and he concludes that fire is dangerous for him.

Similarly, as we grow up we acquire many experiences and information in life. And using those as our train data or our observations, we subconsciously calculate the probability and make decisions accordingly for future.

A person who falls ill on a regular basis say due to poor digestion would try to avoid oily food or carry more digestive medicines while they travel as compared to those who have good digestion. This is because of their different experiences which led them come to different conclusions and helped them to find appropriate solutions.

Thus we all have a hidden Statistician within us. Some studies the technical terms and skills and apply them in large scale while some don't. But, at the end we are all inborn statisticians.

-Jags