I’d argue that stats should come before either of those. A basic course in statistics would be enormously helpful to most people in navigating and understanding the modern world. It’s much more likely to be relevant to daily life for the average person than calculus or linear algebra. Basic calculus–especially differential equations–is certainly enormously useful for understanding the natural world, but statistics is relevant everywhere, and even a lot of math/science people never get any instruction on it.
I’d argue that stats should come before either of those. A basic course in statistics would be enormously helpful to most people in navigating and understanding the modern world. It’s much more likely to be relevant to daily life for the average person than calculus or linear algebra. Basic calculus–especially differential equations–is certainly enormously useful for understanding the natural world, but statistics is relevant everywhere, and even a lot of math/science people never get any instruction on it.
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