Statistical Thinking is a methodical, comprehensive, simultaneous, and simplifying mind’s process. The significance of a methodical process occurs as a result of this systematic own thinking, complexity is due mainly to the
increasingly large statistical data that “invade” human knowledge, and due to a desire of individual observation, systematization, processing, analysis, interpretation. The simultaneous’ feature and, less frequently, the gap are practical expressions of the specific moment of the statistical research, of its chronological approach, allways under its
permanent influences, tendencious and cyclical. Simplifying process, isolation and aggregation tend to appear as simplification results from the statistical applied method, during the period of the final analysis. In such a language
and communication for specific purposes context, a statistician considers “paradigm” in the first place, as a statistical essence, and only after a profound differentiation and customization of statistical thinking in relation to other ways of scientific “reasoning”. In the final appendix, it seems even to the paper’s author, that statistics is a branch of logic, a way of thinking through the paradigm of variation or variance…

Keywords:

statistical thinking, process, significance, data, systematization

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67-76

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Research Paper

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Linguistics

Topic:

Types of Speech and Interactional Mechanisms in Communication

UDC:

81`33

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.495166

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