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> PS- Wizard is only available for Mac, but if you’re reading this on a PC, consider this: for the price of high-end statistics software, you can buy Wizard and still have enough money left over for a top-of-the-line MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. Amazing, isn’t it?

Wow, that's a great way to kill off any sympathy for him. Especially given that he's apparently had 4-5 years to dig himself out of that hole.

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It's especially strange since there are good free multi-platform statistics programs. There's R (as other commenters have pointed out) and JASP (https://jasp-stats.org/) which has a similar point-and-click interface for those who are used to SPSS.

It's not about "sympathy". It's about pointing out that similarly-targeted apps like Analytica can cost $1000+ per license.

$200 for this + $1000 for the cheapest macbook > your $1000 analytica license. And that's before considering that you're now stuck lugging around an extra paperweight everywhere, or that R is available for free.

> or that R is available for free.

Along with Python and Julia.

But just think, for the price of this app, you could buy a nice dinner for two and an infinite number of copies of R.

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