To be fair, I’m snarky because plenty of colleges (and way too many high schools) still do this shit because it’s not about the knowledge, it’s about the signalling to employers that the student will make a good cog in their machine.
To anyone struggling in a stats course: real data science is programming, not math. If you’re on Lemmy there is a good chance you’re a better data scientist than your hack of a teacher.
I think if Bernie suggested murdering all the CEOs he’d get banned from his communities, though.