The class that uninformed students take in attempt to avoid AP
Calculus.
Students begin the year with high hopes, learning about simple probability distributions and elementary data calculations. Around the
time the "oh, I don't need to try in this class" attitude sets in, the course picks up and students are slammed with the first difficult concept of the course: Proprties of Linear Regression. While many students can handle this
unit, many fall behind and begin contemplating suicide. As the class progresses into Experimental Design and probability models, students are overwhelmed with continuous
stress and tears. The concepts are too abstract and students may begin feeling as though the
work is pointless. Around this
time, they give up.
Shortly after the giving up phase, the class takes a turn to the topic of Inference, which no one actually knows anything about because everyone's sleeping. Confidence Intervals and T-Tests are emphasized. The dreaded Chi-
Square tests end the course before the halting AP Exam, and the students are pounded with THE most difficult and grueling AP Examination offered and again
get a final taste of how hopeless they really are. After the AP Exam, AP Stats students generally fall to become
depressed because this class has quite frankly screwed up their minds. They begin noticing flaws in data all around the
world and can't fathom exactly WHY they care.. they have been brainwashed by the one, and the only.. AP Stats.
Jake: Hey dude why are you so down?
Ryan: I just got out of AP Statistics class. Today we did Confidence Intervals for the difference of two proportions and my mind's in a whirl and I can't stop thinking about how my suicide
will effect the standard deviation of the US life expectancy.. And the spread of the districution
will become skewed right and...
Jake: (interrupts) .....
