Re:An update on the campaign to defend serious math educatio...
by spywaregorilla on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @03:35PM
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I took AP Stats in high school. I took a calculus based probability course at MIT. The former was extremely important to me and I learned a ton. The latter was interesting, but mostly unnecessary. A z-score lookup table is more than enough to teach the concept of a normal cdf without actually being able to derive it yourself.
As a professional data scientist I've never needed to use calculus unless you consider graphical reasoning on distribution diagrams to be calculus.
As a professional data scientist I've never needed to use calculus unless you consider graphical reasoning on distribution diagrams to be calculus.