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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's time for a DCUM beatdown now.  Your whole premise seems to be that the magnet math at Blair is so great that your kid will run out of undergraduate math courses, particularly if he goes to a liberal arts college.  Furthermore,  you claim that some of his math is in some way equivalent to a "Statistics" course you took in the UPenn grad econ program.  Both of these point are laughably absurd.
For the easy part, a quick look at UPenn's website will confirm the obvious point that "Statistics" classes are not taught in Economics programs, but are instead called Econometrics.

Let me tell you about myself.  I went to a non-magnet public high school.  When I ran out of math classes to take, I went to the local state flagship university for math courses.  I went to one of the "elite"  LACs cited earlier by the math prof.  Mathematics was one of my majors.  As mentioned earlier, I earned a PhD in Economics with a minor in Econometrics, so I know of what I speak.  There is no way in hell that advanced math at Blair is equivalent to a graduate level Econometrics class, much less a graduate level Statistics class.  There is no way in hell that a regular math class at Blair is equivalent to the Advanced Statistics class at my LAC.

I want to make the following very clear:  at no time have I insulted or otherwise demeaned Blair or any other magnet school or student.  Congratulations to your DC and I wish him/her luck in the future.  He/she will need given your delusion and obnoxiousness as a parent.[/quote]

“Time for a beatdown”? You’ve been acting like a toddler throwing a tantrum since you entered this thread. You’ve fabricated utter bs about me, like I supposedly claimed I never took stats in college (wtf?) or that I’m lying about studying regression in grad school (again, wtf?).

You are absurd.
1. It’s ridiculous to claim that an Econ grad student can’t study econometrics because you think these are different departments or something.  Econometrics is a requirement of every.econ.grad.school in the country. Somehow, amazingly, Econ grad students across the US are all studying econometrics, regardless of whether you want to quibble about the course name or department, and whether you like it or not.

2. Who the f cares what the class is called, statistics vs. econometrics, or what department it’s in. Thanks for looking up Penn’s econometrics classes for me (WTF? WTF?) but I took my stats classes there a while back (surprise, I now have kids in college) so the names and curricula have undoubtedly changed, which anybody with an IQ over 2 would have guessed. Probably it had some name like “Applied Research Methods.,” but again, nobody cares but you. Shall I give you my graduation date and you can try to dig out the class name and department at that time? As another easy example, my kid doing comp sci in college is taking a 400-level stats class (by your logic he couldn’t be doing this because it’s in a different department, yet it’s a requirement for comp sci majors at competitiveness universities, go figure) and the class has some long-windedname but he refers to it as “stats.”

Who cares about your “elite LAC” and Jr PhD. You don’t know how to use “logit” in a sentence, so you’re unqualified to talk about statistics at the high school, grad, or college level. You know less than my kid who is doing .

All is which is a DERAILMENT from the actual POINT I originally made. The fact remains that every intro stats class teaches simple econometrics like linear regression, even at the high school level. I’d look up the AP STATs curriculum but you’re not worth my time, but you go ahead and look it up, I’m sure you’ll find linear regression there.

So here, to repeat, is my original point: my Blair kid took magnet stats and was doing regression by end-September. Was your stat/econometrics/math/whatever the heck you call it in your  “elite LAC” on the same quick pace? [/quote]

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