If you’re a regular reader of my newsletter, you’ll be familiar with this. Regardless, read it again so you know what to expect.
The process of learning statistics (or anything) is not a linear graph. It’s an exponential graph.
If you continued reading even after seeing the term “exponential graph”, congratulations! You passed survival of the fittest 🥳
As for those who simply scrolled away because they assumed that they’d never understand stats, natural selection is coming for them 😔
Jokes apart, there are four things I’d say about learning stats to social science (especially psychology) students.
A disclaimer before that:
⚠️ These things do NOT apply to the useless (in my opinion) calculations they have us do by hand in college/university (especially Indian ones). These things apply to using proper tools like SPSS, R, etc.
⚠️ These things apply to learning stats by yourself, or a combo of self-teaching and college curriculum teaching.
Here we go: