PSYCH 100A
Psychological Statistics
Description: Lecture, four hours. Requisites: course 10 with a grade of C or better, and one course from Mathematics 2, Program in Computing 10A, Statistics 10, or one term of calculus. Designed for premajors. Basic statistical procedures and their application to research and practice in various areas of psychology. P/NP or letter grading.
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Winter 2023 - TLDR: pick a different professor if you can Stigler was an okay professor... It was a flipped classroom where we used a thing called Jupyter Notebook through bruinlearn to learn R and then during lecture, he would just code on a separate website and we would just have to copy it down and submit it. The class is super easy when it comes to completing work and submitting things but when it comes to the tests everything is different. All we did during class and homework was code R, but the test would ask questions about statistics. None of it felt connected and I never knew what to expect on a test because the first midterm was super easy multiple choice but then the second midterm and final were multiple choice questions based on the code we make. Unfortunately, I ended with a C- so I have to retake the class for my major which is annoying because my friends who took 100A this quarter with the other professor said it was the easiest class ever. Stigler also would be really rude to his students when they didn't participate, he would just pick on people and say "you answer this because I made eye contact with you" or he would just make mean and snarky remarks about how no one is participating but its literally just because no one has any idea what is going on. There are two grading schemes, they try both and then apply the one that gives you the higher grade. Method 1: homework (10%), midterm 1 (20%), midterm 2 (25%), final (40%), Jupyter (5%) Method 2: homework (10%), midterm 1 (20%), midterm 2 (30%), final (40%), Jupyter (0%) 1% extra credit if you participate in a study but according to him, he only does this sometimes.
Winter 2023 - TLDR: pick a different professor if you can Stigler was an okay professor... It was a flipped classroom where we used a thing called Jupyter Notebook through bruinlearn to learn R and then during lecture, he would just code on a separate website and we would just have to copy it down and submit it. The class is super easy when it comes to completing work and submitting things but when it comes to the tests everything is different. All we did during class and homework was code R, but the test would ask questions about statistics. None of it felt connected and I never knew what to expect on a test because the first midterm was super easy multiple choice but then the second midterm and final were multiple choice questions based on the code we make. Unfortunately, I ended with a C- so I have to retake the class for my major which is annoying because my friends who took 100A this quarter with the other professor said it was the easiest class ever. Stigler also would be really rude to his students when they didn't participate, he would just pick on people and say "you answer this because I made eye contact with you" or he would just make mean and snarky remarks about how no one is participating but its literally just because no one has any idea what is going on. There are two grading schemes, they try both and then apply the one that gives you the higher grade. Method 1: homework (10%), midterm 1 (20%), midterm 2 (25%), final (40%), Jupyter (5%) Method 2: homework (10%), midterm 1 (20%), midterm 2 (30%), final (40%), Jupyter (0%) 1% extra credit if you participate in a study but according to him, he only does this sometimes.
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Fall 2025 - JEREMY FREAKING TROTT IS THE GOATTT!!!! if you're going to let any review convince you to take this class, let it be this one. let me tell you, this was probably one of the easiest classes i have taken at ucla. if you're a psychobio major, as am i, and need to take this class for your major, do all you can to take it with trott. i've heard from people that their 100A class was challenging, but this was a complete walk in the park. the way this class is taught is close to perfection. pretty much everything is based in your textbook coursekata, which is basically just modules of chapters you can access through bruinlearn. these can be slightly tedious at times, but are genuinely so easy to complete on time, and you have lots of time to complete them at that. these chapters are your bread and butter. if you can understand them, you can pretty much ace the class. i was extremely intimidated coming from LS30A and LS30B. i have trauma from the code in those classes. they made me HATE coding so much so seeing that psych 100A was coding, i was quite scared to say the least. but let me tell you. easiest code EVER. this class uses 'R' which is so easy to learn and navigate and its not fake like 30B. and the textbook also holds your hand and walks you through it and makes it SO SIMPLE I LOVE IT. besides this, trott is such an amazing professor. he is just so reasonable and he really knows what he's teaching. you can tell he cares about his students. he also WANTS you to do well in this class and offers so much extra credit. i went to almost all the lectures and they were a little slow for my pace, since all you do is work together on some code (was still EXTREMELY helpful btw, just was a little repetitive at times). my only critique is the lab section of this class, did not particularly care for it and it wasn't really helpful, but it was still easy to go to. i really think trott is a truely kind man and i wish all the professors here were like him. he gets 5/5 stars from me. now go trott yourself to your class planner and enroll in this class!!!
Fall 2025 - JEREMY FREAKING TROTT IS THE GOATTT!!!! if you're going to let any review convince you to take this class, let it be this one. let me tell you, this was probably one of the easiest classes i have taken at ucla. if you're a psychobio major, as am i, and need to take this class for your major, do all you can to take it with trott. i've heard from people that their 100A class was challenging, but this was a complete walk in the park. the way this class is taught is close to perfection. pretty much everything is based in your textbook coursekata, which is basically just modules of chapters you can access through bruinlearn. these can be slightly tedious at times, but are genuinely so easy to complete on time, and you have lots of time to complete them at that. these chapters are your bread and butter. if you can understand them, you can pretty much ace the class. i was extremely intimidated coming from LS30A and LS30B. i have trauma from the code in those classes. they made me HATE coding so much so seeing that psych 100A was coding, i was quite scared to say the least. but let me tell you. easiest code EVER. this class uses 'R' which is so easy to learn and navigate and its not fake like 30B. and the textbook also holds your hand and walks you through it and makes it SO SIMPLE I LOVE IT. besides this, trott is such an amazing professor. he is just so reasonable and he really knows what he's teaching. you can tell he cares about his students. he also WANTS you to do well in this class and offers so much extra credit. i went to almost all the lectures and they were a little slow for my pace, since all you do is work together on some code (was still EXTREMELY helpful btw, just was a little repetitive at times). my only critique is the lab section of this class, did not particularly care for it and it wasn't really helpful, but it was still easy to go to. i really think trott is a truely kind man and i wish all the professors here were like him. he gets 5/5 stars from me. now go trott yourself to your class planner and enroll in this class!!!
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