Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!+pi+BBT4dBC2M6jgIcTJtg.user.46.165.242.91.POSTED!not-for-mail From: umar <866013149e@python.interpring.com> Newsgroups: alt.polyamory Subject: Re: Busy, busy, busy Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:25:15 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <52cc9af7-0711-42ba-ac03-8db50fc3e299n@googlegroups.com> <39KdnVR7PbT98cz8nZ2dnUU7-KvNnZ2d@supernews.com> <0oudnaHUIsNldxz8nZ2dnUU7-fPNnZ2d@supernews.com> Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="52401"; posting-host="+pi+BBT4dBC2M6jgIcTJtg.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: csiph.com alt.polyamory:32526 On 2021-11-16, songbird wrote: > i wish i'd had a better instructor for statistics so i'd have > stuck it out, but the lecturer was not very good and after the > first day i walked out and dropped the class (i would have been > stuck with that instructor for three classes total and didn't > really have the time or energy for dealing with his sort of > incoherence as a lecturing style) and later picked up a probabiliy > and statistics course that was the alternate choice for fulfilling > the degree requirements. it was pretty tough class but i managed > to get through it. That's more or less what soured me on math. I was something of a whiz at math in high school, and entered college with an AP credit that let me bypass the introduction to calculus course. But the math course I took was taught by someone who couldn't communicate effectively with anyone below Ph.D. level. That's the problem with some of these big-name universities; their reputation is built on research and scholarship, and the quality of teaching is a crap shoot. You might get someone who's a world-class scholar but can't teach worth a damn. Anyway, I muddled through that math course but never took another one. umar