{"id":7956,"date":"2025-12-02T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:38:31","slug":"do-you-hate-math-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/do-you-hate-math-and-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Hate Math and Statistics?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Over half the population hates math and statistics. How do we help them embrace the tools of quality?<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Download my free ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation &#8211; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1123929332?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Do you love math and statistics? Maybe not. Half the population does not like math and statistics. That&#8217;s one of the reasons I created QI Macros: to automate all that math and statistics so they don&#8217;t need to know that. They just get charts or graphs or analysis, right? I don&#8217;t want people frustrated by math and statistics. I want them to start drawing charts.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;When I used to do in-person live trainings, I could tell. I&#8217;d start doing examples, having people use QI Macros to draw charts and things. I knew they&#8217;d gotten it when they started downloading data from their servers and started to run QI Macros on their data. And even people in the room who didn&#8217;t know what they were doing, they\u2019d get a little help from the person next to them and they&#8217;d start drawing charts, and then they&#8217;d go get their data and then they\u2019d start drawing stuff.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t think you have to know all of the formulas and math and \u201chappy hoo-ha\u201d behind what makes this so powerful and useful. You only need to know how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros<\/a> to select some data, click a button, get a chart, get a stat, and then analyze it. And that stuff ain&#8217;t that hard. It&#8217;s pretty simple.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week. Let&#8217;s make life simple for everyone that&#8217;s using Quality Improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over half the population hates math and statistics. How do we help them embrace the tools of quality? Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation &ndash; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results. &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;Do you love math and statistics? Maybe not. 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