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Re:How to choose your college degree (2021) by fm2606 on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:11AM (#32367001)
100% agree about the DS degree. I have plans on getting a MS in stats starting in a year or 2. All the DS degrees list that you have to take a programming (Python/R) course and database course. I don't need those.

I want to know WHEN and WHY to use one stats method versus another.

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Re:How to choose your college degree (2021) by ibgeek on Saturday August 06, 2022 @03:49PM (#32370987)
A stats class won’t teach you that either. You probably want to look into a research methods or similar offered by a Sociology department. If you want to see how to apply stats to the real world, social science is your friend.
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