Posted by Shar on February 14, 2002, at 10:51:06
In reply to Re: Is liberal arts degree worth anything? » trouble, posted by Mr. Scott on February 13, 2002, at 22:29:45
I have had about 10 grad level stat classes. For the ones I knew would be most difficult for me, I took them in the summer because we would meet every day (or most every day) and that provided a lot of continuity.
In other words, I didn't forget what the last lecture was about from one class to the next.
In most of my classes we had study groups, and often worked on homework together. We would compare answers and if someone differed, we'd start at step one and go through to see what/where the mistake was. The deal was, everyone did their own homework, and used the comparison as a check.
None of my profs ever objected to the study groups or homework checking.
I did not have to memorize formulae for the statistics (well, maybe super simple, like standard deviation). But for those formulae that were 3 lines long, they were provided to us. When I taught stats, I never required students to memorize formulae.
Shar
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