/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10309074
Because intro to macro/microeconomics are babby tier, yet people still manage to fail for whatever fucking reason. For the rest of the program you need to have calculus I-III as well as some probability and statistics courses. Also it's a good idea to learn some basic python and R.

>>10130714
I'm in both econ and stats, and >>10130836 is spot on. The stat courses that that statistics majors take is some next level shit.

>have more problems with other maths

I hear ya there. Everyone's getting #rek'd in my microeconomic theory course (not the babbies first micro class). Like the calculations aren't bad when you get down to it, but the questions are super vaguely worded,even the TA is like, wtf is this shit here and there.

>>10057315
No

Majoring in economics is not meant to make you an economist unless you get your Ph.D. What the major really does is provide you with a skillset which can be applied to many different jobs. There's plenty of probability, statistics and stocastic processes, optimization, game theory and math in general which can be useful in finance, banking, actuarial services, even in tech for programming predictive models. Hell, in order to be considered for grad school you need to have linear algebra and real analysis under your belt.

Granted, the quality of what you learn in this major depends which university you go to and which path you take in the major, i.e. the more quantitative path (econometrics) vs. the babby tier qualitative path which is essentially just sociology.

t. Economics major, statistics minor

>>9980821
>This analysis right here is why people should take introduction courses in economics.
Riiiiiight.
There's a reason why everyone critiques Marx's LTV but never even acknowledges the existence of Adam Smith's LTV