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Got a senior level topical course on Hegel, Marx, and Kierkegaard and a statistics course today and Intro to Psychological Science, History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, and a First-Year Seminar tomorrow.

Anyone here taken a college statistics course?

I took stats courses during my master's programs in education research and evaluation, and will be taking more stats courses the next two years

depends on what you mean by math...not really...first we revisited mean, median, mode, standard deviation, outlier, extreme values, quartiles. Then using sample characteristics to make inferences to the general populations, usually using a small data set for testing calculations or SPSS (Statistical Program for the Social Sciences) for homework. Finally I have done chi-square tests, z-score testing, Analysis of variance, Analysis of Covariance, as well as linear and multiple regression...its more of understanding what results you have obtained as well as knowing how the program retrieved the results. If you had algebra and precalculus and can understand formulas you should be fine.

Quote from: TechnoEthicist on August 26, 2009, 10:33:05 AM

I took stats courses during my master's programs in education research and evaluation, and will be taking more stats courses the next two years

Is there much of a math prerequisite? I have had a very small amount of math, and that was in high school.

Some statistics classes have a major math emphasis and some don't. Assuming it is an intro stats course, the easiest way to tell is to look at what degrees require this class.  If they are psychology, sociology, etc. the math should be on the low side.  If they are physics, chemistry, ... expect the opposite.

TechnoEthicist, I like your new avatar.  If you want to improve it even more, you may want to consider getting rid of the guy from the picture and just focus on the beauty on the left. 

I know, but she insisted I needed to be pictured as well...and whatever she wants, she gets

Well played sir (assuming that you were making a reference to my band's "hit").