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Tracy desu yo, pessimist and world’s worst procrastinator. Uni student with still a lot of things to learn. Interests include otome games, Naruto and Japanese.
 : Loves pink, food, ice-cream.
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Ah.... /sigh/
written on Monday, June 22, 2015 @ 11:47 PM ✈
So....... usually I like stats since out of the 8 subjects per year it's the only one that's not /purely/ science. It's a nice break. Especially since 8 of the 12 weeks is actual stats, and the last 4 weeks is algebra and requires minimal study (ah that stuff was good).
BUT
It all changed this year (T⌓T) This year
there is no algebra to save me and it was 12 weeks of stats. To top it off, there
is no longer any theory exams and everything is purely on the computer. Why?
Because the stuff became that complex you can no longer analyse the data by
hand. So...... I'm totally gonna have fun in tomorrow's 3 hour computer final.
Going to be so blind afterwards. Exam worth 40% and the other 60% came from 6 x
10% assessable exercises.
Also I hate to say this but....... this is the year I'm going
to lose my HD streak in stats sigh ಥ_ಥ Lost too
many marks already from assessable exercises and unless I get 90% tomorrow HD
is out of the picture. I miss the last two years of stats where I got 95-100% in the prac
midsems :/ (Never knew what I got in the theory finals though since they never
give those back).
Anyway this year I had an epiphany of why stats is so hard. I
really don't think people understand. I think maths is pretty straight forward
most (most!) of the time since it's like do "THIS." But
with stats it's not maths..... it's literally half maths and half
English....... and playing detective. First you read this deceivingly short
paragraph and you think "oh yeah, seems simple okay" and then you
realise your working out takes like 5 microsoft word pages > >
And you have to hope you picked the right model otherwise
your analysis is moot. And after looking at all the figures the last part which
is my utter weak point is saying what those numbers MEAN. Here's just the
quickest example I could find from our work:
"The key, regardless of the complexity of the spline, is that there
appears to be a couple of points of inflection around the 1000 and 4000
feet depths and this probably reflects the light penetration into the
water and/or the fact that different species of phytoplankton can live in
different light levels and depths but most are concentrated at the
surface."
Like.
What. Is. THIS??
I kid
you not there is nothing about thinking about light penetration and species of
phytoplankton in the actual question, the only data we got was
"depth" and "chlorophyll concentration." Fuarrr my mind
does not expand out of the box that far.
For me, the death words in statistics is:
"transform"
"not normal data"
"logit"
"on the backtransformed scale"
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Ah.... /sigh/
written on Monday, June 22, 2015 @ 11:47 PM ✈
So....... usually I like stats since out of the 8 subjects per year it's the only one that's not /purely/ science. It's a nice break. Especially since 8 of the 12 weeks is actual stats, and the last 4 weeks is algebra and requires minimal study (ah that stuff was good).
BUT
It all changed this year (T⌓T) This year
there is no algebra to save me and it was 12 weeks of stats. To top it off, there
is no longer any theory exams and everything is purely on the computer. Why?
Because the stuff became that complex you can no longer analyse the data by
hand. So...... I'm totally gonna have fun in tomorrow's 3 hour computer final.
Going to be so blind afterwards. Exam worth 40% and the other 60% came from 6 x
10% assessable exercises.
Also I hate to say this but....... this is the year I'm going
to lose my HD streak in stats sigh ಥ_ಥ Lost too
many marks already from assessable exercises and unless I get 90% tomorrow HD
is out of the picture. I miss the last two years of stats where I got 95-100% in the prac
midsems :/ (Never knew what I got in the theory finals though since they never
give those back).
Anyway this year I had an epiphany of why stats is so hard. I
really don't think people understand. I think maths is pretty straight forward
most (most!) of the time since it's like do "THIS." But
with stats it's not maths..... it's literally half maths and half
English....... and playing detective. First you read this deceivingly short
paragraph and you think "oh yeah, seems simple okay" and then you
realise your working out takes like 5 microsoft word pages > >
And you have to hope you picked the right model otherwise
your analysis is moot. And after looking at all the figures the last part which
is my utter weak point is saying what those numbers MEAN. Here's just the
quickest example I could find from our work:
"The key, regardless of the complexity of the spline, is that there
appears to be a couple of points of inflection around the 1000 and 4000
feet depths and this probably reflects the light penetration into the
water and/or the fact that different species of phytoplankton can live in
different light levels and depths but most are concentrated at the
surface."
Like.
What. Is. THIS??
I kid
you not there is nothing about thinking about light penetration and species of
phytoplankton in the actual question, the only data we got was
"depth" and "chlorophyll concentration." Fuarrr my mind
does not expand out of the box that far.
For me, the death words in statistics is:
"transform"
"not normal data"
"logit"
"on the backtransformed scale"
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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Japan and Korea 2015 Masterlist
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Summer TO-DO List
((to be updated as I think of more things while I procrastinate))
✮ Foster kittens
✮ Clean out closet
✮ Make LOTS of ice-cream
✮ Bake + Cook (and use the molds and kits I bought from Japan)
✮ Study Japanese (JLPT N2 level)
✮ Learn basic Korean sentence structures
✮ Play Dousei Kareshi (~50 hours right there, what with my slow Japanese reading speed)
✮ Finishing playing Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
✮ Buy Naruto -The Last- Movie DVD and then rewatch it
✮ Start applying for things……..
✮ Invite people over to drink the endless amounts of tea I have
✮ Make things with the alcohol and liquor stash I have (lol)
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