65% of the people reading this thread lost 2 minutes of their lives they'll never get back.

34.5% of the people reading this thread would don't care about statistics

0.5% of the people reading this thread are geeks with nothing better to do and are actively trying to solve the problem.

I'm among the 65%.



Warren

 

why read it if you know the underlying topic is over your head academically?

 

does that mean the rest of us (them) will get their 2 minutes back?

how would that work, exactly?

 

obviously, he's not the one to ask for help with statistics

 

Stats is no joke. My teacher told us last night that "the real stats begins today" all the shit i learned so far is just a intro to stats. So i have no idea how in 2 weeks left for the semester to be over were gonna learn stats..

 

I once took an upper-division probability and statistics course because I needed another class that semester and it was the only one available at a time I could attend class. (The courses that I wanted - algebraic topology, differential geometry, real analysis - never got enough students to run; darned applied math majors!)

I hated it.

At one point the textbook took three or four pages to evaluate some incredibly ugly integral. Yuck!

We had our first midterm on a Friday at noon. I'd been working feverishly on a huge project at work and averaged about two hours of sleep each night that week. I was late for class because of a meeting and had to park in the visitors' parking.

There were five questions on the exam. The first concerned a Cauchy distribution and it was easy. Then I started the second question. I read it, seemed to understand it, and started writing. After a couple of minutes I looked at what I had written and it was complete gibberish. I moved on to question three. Same result: I read it, started to work on it, and after a few minutes saw that everything I wrote was utter nonsense. I was so sleep-deprived that my brain was making no sense whatsoever. The results on the last two questions were the same.

I got a 20% on the exam, and, to make matters worse, when I got back to my car I had a parking ticket for being there more than half-an-hour. (I could have returned in ten minutes and gotten the same score on the exam and no ticket.)

I passed the class, but I still hate statistics. I teach it, and I use it all the time, but I hate it.

 

I enjoyed stats but it was a "lesser" class compared to my classical engineering (statics, dynamics, thermo, etc, etc) so I didn't work nearly as hard on it. Kind of regret it a bit since it is useful in manufacturing but I've focused more on R&D so ultimately, it's not that big of a deal.

 

one of my brothers has his degree in math, with a masters in stat. he works for an insurance company in houston crunching numbers. he banks.

personally, I hate advanced math to holy hell.

 

I took an econ 700+ class that was an advanced stat and math techinque course. The I think i got an 18 or 20 on a test and sunk low in my seat in shame only to find out the average was a 16 with the high being 24. I didn't finish my masters as I had had enough of that

 

Did you learn the beauty of "The Curve" at least?

I am in a grad level stats course right now, but it is spread across the semester, so it's not that bad. I am also taking Abstract Algebra. If you want a course that will warp your mind, I'd recommend AA Completely opposite of stats