I Need to Work on my Statistics

Kinja'd!!! "Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
08/20/2018 at 21:14 • Filed to: None

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It’s what dragged my math score down significantly.

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DISCUSSION (11)


Kinja'd!!! Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2018 at 21:27

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[traumatic flashbacks of normalized distributions, econometrics, probability distributions, and that other thing I can't quite remember, ensue]


Kinja'd!!! Patrick Nichols > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2018 at 21:53

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What sort of statistics? I’ve taken everything from AP stats to calc/proof based stats and studied for the actuarial exam (before I realized how bored I’d be), even used to tutor my college classmates when they had to take business, bio, or social stats. My only complaint is too much writing to explain my conclusions to people who don’t fully understand.


Kinja'd!!! dogisbadob > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2018 at 21:55

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What exam is this for? I don’t remember stat istics questions being on the GRE, but this was a long time ago when the test was different and it went from 200-800


Kinja'd!!! Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > dogisbadob
08/20/2018 at 22:01

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Kinja'd!!! shop-teacher > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2018 at 22:03

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Statistics was the part of my Master's comprehensive exam that I had trouble with. I managed to squeak by, fortunately.


Kinja'd!!! Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Patrick Nichols
08/20/2018 at 22:11

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It’s basic stuff. I barely passed the class because I was in a deep state of depression when I took it two years ago. In the month before that class started, my best friend died, I was in two car crashes, and we had to put our dog down. And the boss was regularly berating me for my job performance. I don’t remember most of it. 


Kinja'd!!! Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > dogisbadob
08/20/2018 at 22:13

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It now goes between 130 and 170. I’m going to apply to masters programs for special education and specializing in gifted and talented students. 


Kinja'd!!! dogisbadob > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2018 at 22:44

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aaah, I see.

Anyway , good luck! You scores do seem good enough to get in a graduate program that’s not math-heavy and not a ultra elite school. And with a shortage of teachers, especially special ed, you should be fine :o)


Kinja'd!!! GLiddy > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/20/2018 at 23:52

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It’s been many years since I took the GRE, so out of curiosity I Googled around what scores are these days. PrepScholar shows that your scores are right in line with the average score for a Harvard PhD in Education.

https://www.prepscholar.com/gre/blog/average-gre-scores-by-school/


Kinja'd!!! LastFirstMI is my name > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/21/2018 at 00:24

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Nearly 50%  of all people are below average at statistics.

Thought you’d like to know.


Kinja'd!!! Patrick Nichols > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/21/2018 at 09:34

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Damn, hope you’re in a better place now. If you’re still working on it, the easiest way I found to learning everything math (as a math major in college ) was to define every type of problem I was likely to see in a formula and practice identifying the pieces of information/data for each. After that, the arithmetic is simple enough.