I agree - as long as it's not an excuse to dumb things down statistics should be taught before Calculus. It's a quirk of history, I think, that we have it the w

I agree - as long as it's not an excuse to dumb things down statistics should be taught before Calculus. It's a quirk of history, I think, that we have it the way it is. Statistics is still going to be important to understand for 99% of STEM majors, so I don't think there's much downside to flipping the order.