To take statistics or not to take statistics?
Because I discovered that one of the grad programs I am applying to required stat, I am enrolled in the MWF 9 am Statistical Inferences for Social and Behavioral Sciences. It\’s an easy course, but I am not quite sure whether I should take it. Firstly, I would have 18-19 units (the most units I have ever taken). Secondly…am I willing to lose that much sleep for a program that will most likely reject me?
Once I entered the class, I knew it was going to be an easy course. The professor started lecturing in a cautious i-do-not-know-if-my-students-know-what-i-am-talking-about way. On one of his handouts, he talked about the statistics involved in the Peterson case where the judge finally decided on San Mateo county …in one of the 3 cunties… I almost laughed out loud.
Stat was one of my favorite classes at Cal (maybe I\’m weird…) =) And you\’re right, the class wasn\’t that hard at all. I think you should take it just to keep more options open for grad school. You\’ve taken too many classes just to have ONE little stat class stop you.
Sounds like my ISS prof, hehe.