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by kitsune_ 4290 days ago
Because I didn't have any money after high school I decided to get a degree where I could work part time. I had been programming for quite some years but had an interest in media and politics. So I started to study media sciences at the largest university here in Switzerland. After a month I realized that I had made a huge mistake. There was a class called 'statistics in social sciences' and the assistants had trouble with basic stuff like calculating the mean, median, avg etc. They even celebrated their mathematical illiteracy to a certain degree. On top of that, much of the writing in the standard text books could be reduced to meaningless tautologies once you deconstructed the complex phrases a bit. I dropped out very quickly after that. The whole experience left a very sour taste in my mouth.