Isabella Sanders

Psets due every other week or more infrequently that were fairly easy (but a little long) usually took ~1-2 hours, one extremely easy midterm (93 average), one major project where she was flexible with the deadline, and in-person participation in the form of in-class problems that she randomly collected and graded (very flexible grading). Overall one of the easiest classes I've ever taken at Columbia, with the majority of the workload coming from the end-of-semester project (groups of 1-3, 6-8 page single-spaced paper as deliverable). Class experience may vary based on the quality of the randomly assigned group for in-class participation grades, but I got lucky with a good group.

Prof. Sanders was a very relatable person and a decent lecturer, although in all honestly her in-class participation was the only thing that kept me going to lectures. That wasn't her fault, but because her class was a double lecture from 6:10-8:40pm on a Monday, so I was always exhausted. The content included the basics of probability and statistical models. My only complaint was the required usage of R rather than similar equivalents like python. She often ended lectures early, which was nice, or gave us a short break in the middle of the double lecture.

Not much foundations of probability or statistics - mostly just how to plug and chug formulas.

We learned an introduction to probability and statistics. Statistical tests, regression, hypothesis testing, all the fun stuff.

I learned basic probability and statistics. I learned how to think about statistical confidence, and understand how statistics is applied regularly in the real world.

The basics of probability, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, distributions, and coding in R.

I learned probability theory (distributions, bayes theorem, combinatorics, etc) and statistical techniques (t tests, ANOVA)

In this course? Not much. Unfortunately, I had to learn by myself every single topic that we were "taught" because how confusing and disorganized the class structure and presentation of the topics were. Every single class, during every topic, everyone was confused. Not because we couldn't understand, but how confusing the teaching was.

I learned probability, stats, and how to apply it to the real world.

I'd recommend it to someone who wants an easy A. For someone who wants to learn, I would not.