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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A far higher percentage of kids taking Calc BC exam get 5s than of those taking AB do. Same with Physics C than Physics 1. If you conclude from this that BC is easier than AB and C easier than 1, you yourself need to go back to school and take AP Stats. [/quote]

Snark aside, I don’t think you understand my point. I agree that you shouldn’t look at percentages of 5 among all test takers, so lets move away from that argument.

To get an accurate comparison we’d need to find the students taking both BC and statistics and see how the scores differ. We don’t have this data so we need to make some assumptions.

Let’s say we look at the top 5% of students in US, that’s about 200k per grade. Let’s assume further that they all take both Statistics and BC through high school. Of those students 50k get a 5 in BC, but only 30k get a 5 in statistics. You can conclude that it is less likely to get a 5 in Statistics than a 5 in BC.

For Statistics it is easy to get the basics, but difficult to master the finer points. For Calculus, the basics are harder to grasp, but once you got them, it’s straightforward to apply  to more complex situations.

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You offer zero support for your substantial assumptions. [/quote]

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-score-distributions-by-subject-2022.pdf

BC students getting a 5: 49544
Stats students getting a 5: 32165

It’s still better than “calculus is for strong students, statistics is for weak students” because my niece said so.

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You don’t seem to understand why those stats don’t support your argument. [/quote]

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