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Well, after years of putting it off, trying to take it through ALEKS, trying to take a Saylor exam...I finally finished my Study.com Statistics course with an 80% overall. All I can say is WHEW! AND, I can't quite figure out why I didn't just take the stupid thing sooner! It was harder in some ways (lots of memorization of vocabulary) and easier in others (less computations than I was expecting). The final exam was HARD - but I still managed to get a 71%, without a ton of studying (other than actually taking notes, just like I would if it was a regular textbook). Between writing out all of those vocabulary words, writing down the formulas, and trying to understand what's going on...I wrote almost an entire 70-page notebook of notes. And all of those 129 quizzes helped as well. I only needed 56% on the final to pass the course - yes, more than SL would have been, plus it wasn't open notes. But with the Study.com scholarship, the course was free.
For those who are scared of math but have to take stats for your degree, I say that this is easier to get through than ALEKS. Much more theory than actual calculations. You need to understand what you're looking for, but you don't have to do a ton of calculations. It's just more about understanding what the different things mean than needing a calculator to get through the course.
And for anyone who thinks that you really need to understand stats to get a business degree, I think you're crazy! Honestly, I worked in the business world for years, including accounting, HR, compensation, and legal, and never once did I use ANY of the info from this course. It was totally and completely unnecessary to anything I've ever done. The few things that I MIGHT need for some reason, I could use an excel spreadsheet just as easily, so I think it's rather silly to require this for anything except MAYBE a Finance or Accounting concentration and even then, it's a crapshoot if you're going to use it (maybe if you were to become an actuary?). Even if you were to use some of the things learned in the course, it would be just as easy for someone to quickly teach you the bare necessities of the particular thing you needed to know, and then show you the spreadsheet. It really is more than the majority of people need.
Anyway, this was my final course for my degree, so I am finally done, but I'm glad to get my nemesis off my back! I never have to think about statistics again in my life!
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Congrats I agree that a lot of the stats course content is overkill.
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(05-14-2018, 01:34 AM)dfrecore Wrote: Anyway, this was my final course for my degree, so I am finally done, but I'm glad to get my nemesis off my back! I never have to think about statistics again in my life!
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Congratulations! Glad to hear you completed your degree while helping many along the way.
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Congrats! Statistics are used in finance and economics, that I can confirm, and I think there would be some applications in auditing and perhaps in some accounting analytics.
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(05-14-2018, 01:34 AM)dfrecore Wrote: Well, after years of putting it off, trying to take it through ALEKS, trying to take a Saylor exam...I finally finished my Study.com Statistics course with an 80% overall. All I can say is WHEW! AND, I can't quite figure out why I didn't just take the stupid thing sooner! It was harder in some ways (lots of memorization of vocabulary) and easier in others (less computations than I was expecting). The final exam was HARD - but I still managed to get a 71%, without a ton of studying (other than actually taking notes, just like I would if it was a regular textbook). Between writing out all of those vocabulary words, writing down the formulas, and trying to understand what's going on...I wrote almost an entire 70-page notebook of notes. And all of those 129 quizzes helped as well. I only needed 56% on the final to pass the course - yes, more than SL would have been, plus it wasn't open notes. But with the Study.com scholarship, the course was free.
For those who are scared of math but have to take stats for your degree, I say that this is easier to get through than ALEKS. Much more theory than actual calculations. You need to understand what you're looking for, but you don't have to do a ton of calculations. It's just more about understanding what the different things mean than needing a calculator to get through the course.
And for anyone who thinks that you really need to understand stats to get a business degree, I think you're crazy! Honestly, I worked in the business world for years, including accounting, HR, compensation, and legal, and never once did I use ANY of the info from this course. It was totally and completely unnecessary to anything I've ever done. The few things that I MIGHT need for some reason, I could use an excel spreadsheet just as easily, so I think it's rather silly to require this for anything except MAYBE a Finance or Accounting concentration and even then, it's a crapshoot if you're going to use it (maybe if you were to become an actuary?). Even if you were to use some of the things learned in the course, it would be just as easy for someone to quickly teach you the bare necessities of the particular thing you needed to know, and then show you the spreadsheet. It really is more than the majority of people need.
Anyway, this was my final course for my degree, so I am finally done, but I'm glad to get my nemesis off my back! I never have to think about statistics again in my life!
Double congratulations!!! First on your pass, and second on your last class!!! WHOO HOOO!!!
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05-14-2018, 09:27 AM
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Congrats!!!!!! Understand what you mean about not needing the info, but that's the way it is for 90% of everything in a bachelor's degree. It's about learning what's out there and being able to relocate that info later, if needed.
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Congratulations!!!
I felt exactly the same way about Stats, and similarly as I just finished the last math class I needed last night (ironically scoring exactly the same as you - 71% on the final, and 80% overall).
It feels so good to get the math monkey off your back, doesn't it?
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(05-14-2018, 11:10 AM)Nodaclu Wrote: Congratulations!!!
I felt exactly the same way about Stats, and similarly as I just finished the last math class I needed last night (ironically scoring exactly the same as you - 71% on the final, and 80% overall).
It feels so good to get the math monkey off your back, doesn't it?
It really does! I took forever to finish College Algebra too. It's one of those things where my brain just doesn't work the same as it did when I was 18. Trying to take math 30 years after high school graduation is a bit rough.
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