• axus@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    JUST BECAUSE it’s the only math class I had to take twice, doesn’t mean it’s bad… I agree that statistics is some evil

  • Kushan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What’s wrong with probability? I found it once of the easier areas to learn, it’s just basic maths with different names.

    • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      In our school in Germany there was an observation: students who do well in math usually have somewhat worse grades in statistics. While students who were bad at math often did better in statistics.

      In grade 12 and 13 it went like algebra, statistics, geometry, geometry (per semester). Basically, you either got A B+ A A, or D B- D D.

      Writing this down I realize they should absolutely make a statistical analysis on these results.

    • Anivia@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      It was the same for me, both in school and when studying CS. It’s almost as if the difficulty of learning topics is different for everyone.