This honestly does not sound boring in the least. Statistical design of experiments is super interesting. You can tune your experiments to get the most useful information within your experimental budget. If you’ve ever run a physical real world experiment, you’ll understand how much time and expense is involved in doing it at a plant level. The ability to be economical here is so important!
Totally agree! DOE is way underrated. Once you’ve had to run real experiments (especially at scale), you really appreciate how much time and money a good experimental design can save. It’s one of those areas where a bit of math makes a huge practical difference.
I agree! Science is about experiments to verify hypotheses. Design of Experiments seems like a fundamental part of that. That's also why the quote below made me laugh.
> What if you don’t care about efficiency or causality?
"Yeah, what about if you don't care about money/time and are happy with finding a correlation only?!!?"
