I am so glad I am not the only one that feels this way. In high school, I didn't have to take a single probability/stats class. In college, as a CS major (!!), I had to take a single intro stats class that was completely insufficient. And when a stats education is insufficient, god damn is it insufficient. No motivating examples whatsoever (what distribution would I use to measure ${real world process}? why would I need to calculate ${X} about the distribution?), just formulas that you're expected to memorize and vomit onto an exam with no understanding of why you're doing what you're doing at all.
What is the deal with this? Why isn't stats commonly taught in school when it is by far one of the most prevalent disciplines? And why, on the rare occasion when it is taught, is it so abysmal? Statistics forms the basis for all of science, for god's sake. I've since developed a patchwork understanding of statistics on my own from various resources I've found the time to consume. For the record, I grew up in the US.
What is the deal with this? Why isn't stats commonly taught in school when it is by far one of the most prevalent disciplines? And why, on the rare occasion when it is taught, is it so abysmal? Statistics forms the basis for all of science, for god's sake. I've since developed a patchwork understanding of statistics on my own from various resources I've found the time to consume. For the record, I grew up in the US.