The thing about statistics is that sure, you can sort of understand statistics, but without a lot more work and sweat, you don't REALLY understand statistics. I have some grasp of the basics. (I know what a confidence interval is, for instance.) This is unhelpful to me when trying to parse much of what happens in the Results sections of the papers I read for work. I can grasp whether the results look decent to some extent, but there's a lot of "And then a miracle occurred" handwaving going on that I suspect the authors don't even understand, having called in a stats expert and a fancy computer to do it for them.