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Your parent's point is that this hypothesis ("bimodality reduces as students progress through the curriculum" is possibly contradicted by the fact that many lat
by throwaway729 10y ago
Your parent's point is that this hypothesis ("bimodality reduces as students progress through the curriculum" is possibly contradicted by the fact that many late-stage mathematics courses are strongly bimodal.
(FWIW my analysis course was also bimodal.)
- ghaff 10y agoBased on some limited experience upper-level math and (I assume) physics probably have a stronger element of "get it" vs. "don't get it" than most majors. Way back when I was an undergrad a number of the math majors I knew considered it to be a relatively easy major and there were definitely people who pretty much breezed right through. At the same time, I was quite convinced that I could no more have successfully graduated as a math major--no matter how hard I worked--than I could have successfully flown through the air by flapping my arms. By contrast, I'm reasonably confident that I could have gotten through pretty much any other majors, whether engineering or something else.