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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:43 PM
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My Econometrics textbook scares me...
:scared:

It all looks like this:





It's gonna be one hell of a semester, I'm afraid...If y'all don't see me around next week, it's because I'll be reviewing Stats, hardcore. And phonebanking for Lee Mercer Jr, of course :D
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:45 PM
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1. Bi-baby, that problem's a lot easier than it looks at first
The answer is 42

...or is it?
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:45 PM
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2. Hehe....
:spank:
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:46 PM
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3. A statistical calculator saved my ass in Econometrics.
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 04:48 PM by Kutjara
Instead of having to work out all the regressions by hand during the exams, I just plugged the numbers into the calculator and - abracadabra! - there was the answer. A few minutes spent scribbling some plausible-looking calculations, and I was all done. Sadly, such calculators were banned the following year. Sadly for the following year, that is.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:47 PM
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6. A lot of our work will be software-based...
Skool hasn't started yet, so I have yet to see the syllabus. Luckily most of the class will be my friends and fellw econ majors, so at least I have a ready-made support group :)
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:52 PM
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9. We had to do a big software project and then sit a final exam.
The project wasn't too bad, even though this was the mid 80s and the mainframe we used had less computing power than a modern electric toothbrush. I did mine on the link between cigarette advertising and overall cigarette consumption. Basically, I had to hypothesize a few relationships, test them using regression analysis, and then write a holy load of bullshit "interpreting" the results.

The final exam was a bear, though, and I would never have had time to finish it without my little friend from Casio.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:47 PM
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4. I can honestly and quite happily say that I've never heard of Econometrics
and yet, somehow, my life hasn't been any worse for it.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:48 PM
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7. It's like Advanced Statistics for Economics, although
it is used in other fields as well. Essential for a soon to be graduating Econ undergrad, which I am. :)
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:54 PM
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11. Best of luck with that...
I'd take one look at that textbook, shriek like a banshee and hide under my bed for the rest of the semester.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:01 PM
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14. I wanted to, but I have to graduate in May...
I'm SO ready to be done with Undergrad.
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:19 PM
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17. well then, you'd better get to work...
didn't you get an A- last semseter? seriesly, you need to reexamine your priorities.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:20 PM
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19. Shut up!!
x(

:spank:
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MrCoffee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:25 PM
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21. rumor has it that President Mercer is looking for a new Fed chair
i'm nominating you
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:47 PM
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5. I like math that looks like poetry.......
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:49 PM
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8. I wish it were poetry, and not math
:P
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:54 PM
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10. I came across some old calculus notes a few years ago
Edited on Fri Jan-18-08 04:55 PM by JoeIsOneOfUs
looked at the lovely curvy triple integrals and thought, goodness, I couldn't do that anymore if my life depended on it.

post grad school I've nose dived into officey jobs on the periphery of science. I think my brain is shrinking from lack of use.

edit for spelling - I'm forgetting that stuff too!
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 04:57 PM
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12. Head asplode
My god, I assume you are a social sciences major of some sort?

I was a PoliSci major but I thankfully avoided Stats of any kind. I'm not sure how, because I'm the only one I knew in my class that somehow dodged that bullet.

Hope the phonebanking goes well. I'm going to make some calls myself tonight (after I block my number from caller ID, of course).
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:00 PM
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13. Economics, to be exact...
This is my final semester. This will be my toughest class, 2 other easy Econs (Environmental Econ and American Economic History), and an Art class, Intro to Digital Imaging (learning to use Photoshop, Pagemaker, etc)

And then I get to graduate! w00t! :bounce:
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:05 PM
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15. Coool!
That explains the bigass mathematical stuff then (upper level course). If you get through it they should give you a medal. :)
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:17 PM
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16. Y'know, I've recently had to dive back into some statistics
I am after pretty much taking a year off writing up my Plan B paper for my MPH (think of it as a thesis, and it will eventually get published) and goodness how quickly that stuff fades. Once you get a little practice in in isn't very hard--after all about 90% of what you do is plug and chug with the same handful of equations. Setting that aside though, the minute I stop using it, it just goes away.

Sheesh, I had to look up how to calculate standard deviation fer cryinoutloud!

Good luck, and go get 'em!
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:20 PM
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18. Thanks! And you're correct!
I took Intro to Stats a year ago, and I don't remember much of it, even though I did really well in the class...Hence the need for review :)

:hi:
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:23 PM
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20. That looks worse than P-Chem
bleh
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-18-08 05:30 PM
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22. P chem!!
A couple of years ago I saw a bumper sticker on a parked car that said "honk if you passed P Chem". Wished I was in my car to honk instead of walking.

That's another one where I looked back and said, wow, that IS my handwriting.

I think being sleep-deprived for most of college reduced my memory of it all.
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