Thanks Julie.  That is also what helped me so far.  When they use 3 
different words for average that mean different things, that's when I 
started getting lost.  Then our book went in to lotteries and gambling and 
figuring the gain for insurance companies on policies.  Oh goodness.  Now 
we're in to theories I can hardly read.  The praise is that it is in 
Braille.


Vicki

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JULIE MELTON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: hello


> Rhonda and Vicki,
>
> One secret to doing well in statistics is to think of what you're learning 
> as concepts, not numbers.  Numbers scare me, too, but it's easier for me 
> to think of a median as something in the middle, an average as everything 
> added up and divided by the number of cases, etc.  Don't know if I 
> explained it well, but it's how I got through stats without tanking my 
> GPA. I ended up being a lab instructor for stats in undergraduate school, 
> but that was purely God, not my math prowess, LOL.
>
>
>
> JulieMelton
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>
>
>
>
>
>>From: Rhonda Partain <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: hello
>>Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:22:58 -0400
>>
>>Hello everyone!
>>Long time since I have posted
>>Just taking classes, and  reading and reading.
>>I am thinking of taking a class called Statistics For Social Sciences next
>>term, but the word statistic scares me, numbers ae so confusing to me.
>>I'm praying for you Vicki,  how is the class going?
>>How is everyone else doing?
>>Snow in Denver,  what fun..not!
>>I am glad I can say I know what a foot of snow looks like, but really 
>>can't
>>say I want to see it again!
>>Talk to you all soon
>>Rhonda