How hard is an Intro to Stats class?

falltransfer1
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 05:48:39 +0000

People say that statistics is easy.

It is true that most community colleges (and even some universities) really dumb the curriculum down. In fact, some of them do this pretty disgracefully; for instance, many instructors will often ask only the most tangential questions in regard to probability theory on exams, e.g. a coin is flipped three times…

I took statistics with a professor that is pretty well known on my campus for being difficult. Believe it or not, over thirty people dropped that class (there were only nine of us left at the end). I actually didn’t even need to take the final to get an A, but that’s because statistics is a strong interest of mine (I took the class as an elective).

I’d say the curriculum for statistics is set pretty low at most community colleges, as the class is essentially geared towards liberal arts majors that don’t like mathematics but need to fulfill the quantitative reasoning requirement.