Their art program taught them statistics? Suspending a very large amount of disbelief for a sec, then great, that's 2. Or are you actually saying that ALL of the other art students took courses on statistics and actually understood them?
I specifically took five English Lit type classes (don't recall their exact titles) because they counted toward whatever bullshit category I needed to fill, and I find that kind of class to be the easiest zero effort A. Read a book and have some opinion about it, versus other bullshit non-science classes with actual facts that had to be learned.
So you chose to take those courses instead of other things like business communications or economics or whatever that would have served you better.
I took Movies as Literature and Literature in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Easily two of the easiest classes possible for a nerd and checked the literature boxes.
Ah, I stand corrected. I'll now go forth with the assumption that everyone with a college degree has a basic understanding of statistics!
Except that Stats is "one" of the options to satisfy that second math class (with College Algebra). Most choose "math for liberal arts majors" instead of Stats.
At least in the Social Sciences, Math for Liberal Arts Majors is generally a skippable prerequisite for a second course, Stats for Social Sciences, which is then a prerequisite for Statistic Research Methods.
Stupid finance degree. Think I had at least two stats classes and calculus.
Since I went to college, I've been assured that this is impossible. I can even stats and oilchange! Will the wonders of the general curricula ever cease!?
Because I attended Army language school and took a bunch of CLEP tests I skipped nearly all of it. But god damn was I salty when I realized over half of your time in credit hours at university is dedicated to stupid bullshit and electives.
Which language did you learn?
If you want this for the youth in the US, you could consider joining the military. It's been a long while, but my time as a Navy ET (Electronics Technician) was basically 18 months of pure electronics school and troubleshooting down to a component level. 8-10 hours a day, all day, every day. It was a mandatory 6 year enlistment at the time due to the ~2 years of school (bootcamp, tech core, ET school, specialist "C school") before getting assigned your first orders. There wasn't a single moment wasted on english or social course load bs. Most decent techs get out after the first enlistment and go on into the civvy world making bank. I got out at 24 years old on a Thursday, went to work on the Monday as a contractor making 6 figures (2002 money).
This is absolutely true and its one of the top 3 problems with the modern educational system.
