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I'd recommend instead learning this stuff through Coursera or CFA or actuarial exams instead. Way cheaper and there's no benefit to the classroom for this mat
by smky80 13y ago
I'd recommend instead learning this stuff through Coursera or CFA or actuarial exams instead. Way cheaper and there's no benefit to the classroom for this material.
- jlarocco 13y agoFor people still in school, I'd recommend taking econ classes to fill up the social science requirements. In that case they have to pay for some course anyway, and econ is much more practical than classes like sociology and anthropology.
- TomatoTomato 13y agoAnyone even thinking about taking an actuarial exam brace for a world of hurt.
- gwern 13y agoI looked at an actuarial textbook once, and almost all the material seemed so specialized that I don't see why anyone would recommend learning it unless they were actually going to be doing actuarial stuff.
- TomatoTomato 13y agoA popular actuarial textbook like "Actuarial Mathematics" is extremely specialized (especially to life insurance) and would only relate to the 3rd exam (MLC) and beyond. However, the first two exams are much more generic to statistics and finance respectively.