[ExI] probability

[William Flynn Wallace]

I taught undergraduate stat and never looked any further into it - too busy
with other classes and not all that interested.  But what you say leads me
to believe that there is a whole world of stat that I know nothing about
and had no idea it existed.  bill w

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 1:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] probability
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> All of which is to say that what is being taught is unavailable to the
> average student, who is very unlikely to take precalc.  I still vote for a
> class in, say 11th grade, which teaches everyday probability and everyday
> finance.  Most people are unaware of just how powerful compound interest
> is.  Oh well.  English is taught every year starting about the 7th grade,
> isn't it?  Most of it is useless to the average student, since grammar
> takes a back seat to literature.  Result;  college students don't know
> grammar.  Some people in our group are not good at it.
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> Biggest problem out there:  nobody asked me!   bill w
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> Billw, the standard engineering core curriculum has been the subject of
> debate for the last coupla decades.  A highly credible authority made the
> case that the standard analytic geometry followed by 4 quarters of calculus
> followed by one quarter of differential equations followed by one quarter
> of linear algebra with one lonely statistics course tossed in there
> anywhere is all wrong.  He argued that the 4 quarters of calculus is too
> much in times when integration is done by numerical methods anyway.  We
> should be teaching the engineering math-core as three quarters of
> statistics, one based on calculus and one based on linear algebra.
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> I reluctantly came to agree with him.
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> Explanation later.
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