College

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

If I had seen this 5 years ago, my reply would have been:

I'd remove Penn State from the list if you're serious about a quality education.

(PA resident)

Uh oh. Don't let djnemo find you!

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Uh oh. Don't let djnemo find you!

I'm in PA!

I work with a TON of PSU grads, I have proof.

Seriously, it's a huge party school. They're typically classless too, remember when PSU kids thought it woulld be hilarious to dress as dead VT shooting victims for holiday parties? Ton of crime on the campus too...then there's Jerry.

[Daseal]

DR -- Go with Economics. Statistics is so open and shut. Right vs wrong answers. Econ will give you a little more flexibility. I've taken both, at a very basic level. Not sure about your school, but mine is pretty conservative. As long as every answer focused on the free market being the best way, it was correct! (not quite that easy, but my basic strategy!)

Both of them will suck a certain amount, but I think econ is the lesser of two evils.

[SmootSmack]

What Schneed said

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

Of the two, you'll dig econ more. Only basic math functions will be used in this econ course, it's largely a study of human behavior, but done so graphically and with basic mathematics and logical thought processes. Very useful class in daily life, you'll gain an understanding of the way interest rates work, which can apply to mortgages to investments to loans to whatever.

Statistics is probably the single most useful class in all of undergrad, though. If you can grasp it well, the applications are endless. The most useful for your line of work would be understanding the statistical range within which the human mind would react to counseling or medical treatment for psychiatric conditions. ie with 95% confidence you could expect x kind of behavior.

As an economics major and one who took numerous statistics classes, I agree. I think statistics will be more challenging than the economic class you posted. But it will be more fruitful. Econ is always great to use to analyze human behavior. Also you'll be better versed in understanding overall economic trends and sift through the majority of the BS politicians and the media claim is impacting the "economy ".

[hooskins]

Also do you have a description of the statistics course?

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Also do you have a description of the statistics course?

Thanks for the input guys!

And hoo, yeah, here's the description of the stat class:

2012 Fall Main Session
MATH 500/Lecture/01 - Statistics | Credits 3.00
(Summer and both semesters/3 credits) Basic statistical methods as they apply to data and research in the human sciences and other fields. Topics include frequency distributions and their representations, measures of central tendency and dispersion, elementary probability, statistical sampling theory, testing hypotheses, non-parametric methods, linear regression, correlation, and analysis of variance. Each student may be required to do a statistics project under the guidance of a cooperating faculty member in a specific discipline such as biology, economics, education, political science, psychology, or sociology.

[Ruhskins]

DR, does your graduate program have a stats requirement? I was curious since it seems a lot of grad programs do.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

DR, does your graduate program have a stats requirement? I was curious since it seems a lot of grad programs do.

Not for my path. I'm doing counseling so it's theory and interpersonally heavy. If I had chosen to do the general/experimental path (to pursue the PHD in the future rather than the PsyD) then yes, stats is required.

[los panda]

i got a football scholarship to itt tech but i couldn't afford the bus fare at the time. now i make dolphin art in all shapes and sizes