Hi everyone,
I was glad to find this forum, after many years I am back in school and I never had statistics in high school and it is kicking my butt. I did not even know there were so many categories of statistics. At first I thought, this is just replacing these symbols for words, it doesn't look so bad, and I was able to do some of the simple problems, then it went from that to sitting and crying with the statistics book! LOL (serious though). These I think are still pretty basic problems, and I am not stupid by any means, but these make me feel sooo stupid...I think it is like a new language, trying to learn all the symbols for everything. I do not even know which area of this post to qualify it as to label it. I do want to learn and I really wish I had taken this in high school. Unless you are a researcher or a math teacher, or finance person can anyone say they use this stuff in everyday life?
Vannie
I was glad to find this forum, after many years I am back in school and I never had statistics in high school and it is kicking my butt. I did not even know there were so many categories of statistics. At first I thought, this is just replacing these symbols for words, it doesn't look so bad, and I was able to do some of the simple problems, then it went from that to sitting and crying with the statistics book! LOL (serious though). These I think are still pretty basic problems, and I am not stupid by any means, but these make me feel sooo stupid...I think it is like a new language, trying to learn all the symbols for everything. I do not even know which area of this post to qualify it as to label it. I do want to learn and I really wish I had taken this in high school. Unless you are a researcher or a math teacher, or finance person can anyone say they use this stuff in everyday life?
Vannie