Majivo wrote:
sh*t, you're right! Let me just go to the dean of my school and tell him that I don't have to take any English classes, or humanities, or hell, even unrelated sciences, because they have their own major!
It's not my fault that you don't know the difference between Gen Ed classes and Major Core courses. Statistics typically isn't a GenEd class.
Majivo wrote:
Oh wait, no, you're just a moron.
Read above..
Majivo wrote:
Of course it's @#%^ing required. With a BS in Mathematics, you'd almost certainly have to have taken some sort of course illustrating the mathematical foundations of statistical theory, and along the way you'd have to learn something about how to actually analyze statistical data. This is true of virtually any school in the US.
You may not know this, but math is divided into two major fields, abstract and application. It is blatantly obvious that you're talking out of your **** and don't know what you're talking about. Statistics for a math major is like taking Real Analysis, Partial Differential Equations or Topology. It's not necessary unless it's part of your concentration, which should never be, because you would be majoring in statistics.
Just because Statistics uses math, doesn't make it more necessary.
To be fair, I took the Comp Sci version of Probability, but from my explanation, the math version of the class focused more on proofing. So I can't speak as if I know that class, but I assure you, statistics do not weigh as heavily as you are proclaiming.
Majivo wrote:
Also, stats is a "completely different" class from everything else you took? What kind of blackmail did you have on your professors? You obviously aren't that bright if you believe that somehow the same principles don't apply to it as ordinary mathematical analysis, so it's hard to understand how you managed to graduate.
What? Once again, math is divided into Abstract and Application. You obviously don't know what you're talking about.
Majivo wrote:
This is, of course, all ignoring the point that you're just plain wrong and have a deeply flawed understanding of the statistical principles at play here. This isn't very surprising given that you just admitted that everything you currently know about statistics, you pulled off of a Wikipedia page.
If you don't trust wiki, but some other random page on the Internet, then look at the sources provided by Wiki. Unless you can prove to me that a greater percentage of a population doesn't represent a greater portion of that population where accuracy is increased, then politely STFU.
Edit: I can see stats weighing more in abstract math, but I don't know because I did application, which further proves my point....
Edit 2: I just remembered (if that's correct, have to check my transcript), I only took one stat class and one pro/que class and I had to get approval to have that stat class even count for my math major.
Edited, Apr 23rd 2011 1:57am by Almalieque Edited, Apr 23rd 2011 2:01am by Almalieque