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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stats is a very useful class...more useful to many than calc.  If she was going into Engineering it would be a problem but otherwise I would do it.[/quote]

I agree! It’s a great, practical class. [/quote]
For many, it will sink in better by learning the basis for stats first (calculus) and then taking more advanced (calc-based) stats in college.[/quote]

Please reread the original post. The OP's question isn't about taking stats in college. It's about whether her DC who is not interested in math should take stats in HS in place of calc because the DC is not into math. You can take HS stats without a calc background and that's what the DC should do. She is not looking at engineering school etc. [/quote]

You can also take stats at the undergrad,masters, and phd level without a calc background.[/quote]
You can take basic stats classes without calc, yes.  But anything beyond basic requires calc.[/quote]

That's completely, entirely not true. I minored in statistics at the PhD level at Cornell, classes such as applied statistics, advanced experimental design, non-parametric analysis, etc.

You can literally find 20 or more classes in statistics all involving actually USING statistics (and programming in R, SAS, Stata, etc.) where not one single lesson from calculus is used.[/quote]

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