Fall 2020 FYS: The Power of Confidence (STAT-1101-01)

The world is based on specific rules which no oneactually knows. Your opinions about how life worksare molded from your experiences. That belief thenshapes your decisions. Power is the ability to knowwhen it is time to upgrade your model of the universe,while confidence is moving forward with what youbelieve to be true. Others may try to fool youinto believing what they want with carefully crafteddata. This non-mathematical class explores theprocess of making choices in a world filled with errorsand uncertainty, also known as statistical analysis.