I believe that they contribute to understanding, because human minds are wired to engage with stories. If your chemistry teacher was worth their salt, they'd teach you Gay-Lussac's law by telling you about how, when the hot air balloon was first invented, Gay-Lussac was seen as a mad young upstart by all of the older scientists for wanting to go up in one. Well, not only did he nearly die making measurements, he also showed that, at higher altitudes, there was lower pressure and lower temperature. Then, your chemistry teacher should pull out a spray-can of keyboard cleaner, invert it, spray the liquid into a beaker, and let everyone feel the adiabatic temperature depression from expansion (of course, most of the endothermicity is from the boiling of the liquid, but the point stands) they can explain that any compressed gas gets colder when you release it, whether the keyboard cleaner, spray paint, or the compressed coolant in the coils of your refrigerator. Lower pressure, lower temperature. Gay-Lussac's law. Now, all of those students will, when they think about the relationship of pressure and temperature, remember Gay-Lussac in a hot air balloon, at low air pressure, and low temperature.

Not gonna lie sounds like a skill issue.

There are do many situations where it's either statistics or just vibes/gut feeling. And I'd prefer it to be statistics if it's remotely important.

Of course there is plenty nonsense one can do with statistics and statistics without transparent methodology are a great way to hide lies.

So you have two groups of ten experiments, mean if group A is 100, mean of group B is 105, variance is 25 (for both groups). Obviously we are not confident that these groups differ.

Now suppose we repeat the experiment two billion times. The group A average is now 99, and the group B average is now 103. The variance is still 25. Are you still not confident that the groups are different?

and then asking the community to "solve the best way to kill Voldemort" like you think they're literally all too stupid to see what you're doing and it works because they are that stupid.

what is it they were doing?

Be that as it may, I like a good power fantasy story with an intelligent and ethical hero. I like Doctor Stone and The Culture. I don't like Overlord, because after the first season, which was quite fun, they moved the perspective away from our overpowered and quite ethical hero, Ainz. I like Kamen Rider Zi-O, which has an OP protagonist and plays with themes of good and evil, tyranny and justice, very artfully. And HPMOR, I read and enjoyed before I even knew of all of those. I liked how Harry reforms a Nazi and I like how he thinks Azkaban is shit.

HPMOR isn't... good... but it's exactly the specific kind of nonsense that most strongly appeals to My tastes, and it's a damn sight better than the originals by most any measure.

Still, the best kid genius story remains A Series of Unfortunate Events.