The meme that liberal arts majors are almost always terrible at mathematics is incredibly dangerous to raising the sanity line. The meme is part of the same cluster of ideas as “Liking/Being good at math is weird and not for normal people.” Sorry if I’m overreacting to the joke, but I really believe the meme is that dangerous.
If you weren’t joking, sorry for misinterpreting you. The answer to your question, you want enough statistics training that you can deduce the really basic concepts (population, sample, null hypothesis) by yourself. Depending on the person, the focus of the professor, and the quality of the class, that could mean one really good class or a year long sequence. As I said above, your goal is to be able to explain a concept like regression to an interested lay audience.
Is that supposed to be a lot or a little statistics?
The meme that liberal arts majors are almost always terrible at mathematics is incredibly dangerous to raising the sanity line. The meme is part of the same cluster of ideas as “Liking/Being good at math is weird and not for normal people.” Sorry if I’m overreacting to the joke, but I really believe the meme is that dangerous.
If you weren’t joking, sorry for misinterpreting you. The answer to your question, you want enough statistics training that you can deduce the really basic concepts (population, sample, null hypothesis) by yourself. Depending on the person, the focus of the professor, and the quality of the class, that could mean one really good class or a year long sequence. As I said above, your goal is to be able to explain a concept like regression to an interested lay audience.