5 Reason Why People Avoiding Statistics
I always wondering why it’s so hard to teach college student about statistics matter. So I did a little research. I made a questionnaire and asked several student whether he like or dislike statistics subject. The result’s amazed me, almost all the student love statistics (90%). I don’t buy it, I’ll try to figure it out, maybe there’s a mistake; I picked the wrong student to answer such question, or I must have asked them the wrong question. So, I changed the question, instead of asking them whether he likes or hate statistics, I asked the students why they hate statistics subject. I asked them to write 5 reason why they hate statistics. Here are the result (sort by the most frequent answer) :
1. Never met the teacher that teach math/statistics well.
2. Math/statistics teacher usually arrogant, boring, and senseless.
3. Too complicated, and difficult to learn.
4. Useless, not applicable to the real life.
5. Too much formula
Well, that they are. How about you ?
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Statistikana | admin, December 30, 2008 9:46 pm
lovelyrainbow1 — December 31, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Hehehe I agree with most of the answers above. When I was in college, I hate statistics because the reason no 1, 2, 3., and the teacher didn’t tell us about the application in real life.
taufan — June 12, 2009 @ 2:57 am
It’s to difficult for me…
Thats why I dont like statistic very much
DiLog — June 12, 2009 @ 2:59 am
I’m not good in statistic even I had to take statistic class twice
taufan — June 12, 2009 @ 3:00 am
It’s pretty difficult for me
butterfly — February 17, 2010 @ 7:43 am
it’s easy to understand the application of statistics. it’s not too difficult