Day 39: Stats, but interesting
September 22, 2009 9:33 am manycoloursStatistics is a notoriously boring subject. As someone who is rather proficient with maths, I have to admit that it really bores me to the core. I skipped most of my stats 103 lectures, didn’t pay attention to my tutorials. My lecturers and tutors were not too interesting.
However today, it was the most entertaining statistics lesson that I’ve attended. The tutor carried is extremely odd accent – strong American accent at the beginning of the sentence and ending off with a strong Danish accent. I was so confused, his nationality was like a complete mystery, haha. Turns out that he is from California but is a Danish now. The style in which he conducted his lesson was super amusing and light-hearted. Once again, it was like a talkshow or entertainment variety show. What I learnt from the lesson was not about stats. (The concepts were really basic. it’s only like 5% of AB103) I got to see how comfortable a person can get speaking to a class of 80-90 people, and how witty he can still be, while passing mandatory information to the audience.
