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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: What math would you require?
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Date: 16 Mar 90 16:14:30 GMT
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:From article <211@samna.UUCP>, by jeff@samna.UUCP (jeff):
> 
>>> I would also require one of the following classes:
>>>   Statistics (1)
> 
> I disagree.  Get rid of statistics.  My own experience (and I've talked
> to a few others who agree) was that statistics consisted of learning
> a whole bunch of silly formulae and how to plug your numbers into them.
> There didn't seem to be any (hmm ... rather than "any", how about
> "enough to make it worthwhile") generally useful principles to be learned.

I went to a school that was on a quarterly calendar.  One quarter of
statistics was fine for laying a good, useful foundation in statistics.
We CS majors actually had to take two quarters but the first quarter could
be considered more "useful" than the second.
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