Category Archives: EDUCATION

Really, really feel ashamed of myself.  Gave up and walked out on a stats exam because I totally blanked out.  Stress rising brought me up out of my seat, out the door.  Head hung.  Never been a quitter–age somehow has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m sitting here in the campus library hiding from the world. Just went through a Stats exam and the probabilities of my passing it are not great. Just can’t seem to get my head around the fact that I do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Facing a quiz almost every single class session is annoying. Noticing my stress, my husband made the remark that I’m studying to pass a test, rather than studying to learn what I’m doing. That made me stop and think. In … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As I suspected, the various courses taken at a college level are not necessarily for the discipline of the field, or to retain in its entirety all the information. The tool we inadvertently are learning (although the wise professors are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Very strange experience today, in the computer lab on campus. Sitting in a row, head bent and working on producing several histograms because the downloaded program I can use at home is an upgraded version. This means, of course, that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s two a.m. and it’s like the perfect time to get some homework done. But honestly, Binomial and Poisson Probability Tables are just not doing it for me. And frankly, the New Media assigned readings–or at least the one I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Thanks to all who commented below on the relative frequencies of the probability of not burning in hell p(Not Hell) versus hell p(Hell) if statistics probabilities of an A = p(A) is not mutually exclusive. Everything I walked out of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I will not burn in hell for eternity if I don’t get an A in Statistics. I will not burn in hell for eternity if I don’t get an A in Statistics. I will not burn in hell for eternity … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes we learn not just the topic we study, but more about ourselves in the process. Although at my age, I must admit that what it’s really doing is reinforcing knowledge that I may choose to be blind to and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Remember jamais vu? Drawing a complete blank upon visual contact with a familiar thing? Well, it happened in my Stat class this morning. I couldn’t conceive of how to find the mean! I think I’ll go back to wondering if … Continue reading → Continue reading →