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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

I always hear people say this and it's so strange to me. I HATE math, but statistics makes perfect sense to me. I took the AP and got a 5 and then took it again in college just because I like the class so much. Statistics tell a story, so they're the only dimension of math that seems human to me.

Haha it depends on what kind of Stat class you are talking about. I took an elementary stat class at my junior college and it was a breeze! I actually found it rather intriguing. However, right now I am taking "Mathematical Statistics" which is a whole conundrum of proofs and crazy ass estimations of the mean using strictly math, very few stories involved. That is what I hate most about this class. We talk about distributions and means and variances and sums, but there never is a background story at all! In elementary stat, we learned how to calculate stuff and then calculated it based on data, but in this class we focus only on the math aspect of it. And if this is the class that you like, then by all means, you can do my work for the rest of the semester!!!