Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George

STA197H1

Thinking Better with Statistics

PrerequisiteNone listed

Total contact hours24 seminar

Evidence1 term

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What was the average?

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3.7 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Fall 2022.

How is it graded?

Not yet verified

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How confident is this?

Low

A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.

From the calendar

Official source · Faculty of Arts & Science

This course explores how our statistical intuitions and ways of thinking can let us down. There’s no need to be a math whiz to be a better statistical thinker. Everyone can become a more critical consumer of claims presented in media, advertisements and by politicians—especially those relevant to our own health and wealth. This course uses real-world examples and tours common and avoidable statistical traps and tricks. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: None listed
Contact hours: 24 seminar; Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

What people actually got

Last observed Fall 2022

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3.7 GPA

1 term observed

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This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.

The newest observation is from Fall 2022. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.

This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.

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A current averageThe newest verified observation is from Fall 2022. Later terms have no confirmed result yet.

Per-term breakdownHeld back deliberately. Splitting 1 observations across terms would be false precision.

Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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Claim	Source	Captured	Status
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours	Faculty of Arts & Science	2026-07-25	public fact
Historical average across 1 term	Student contributions, consented	2026-07-25	user contributed aggregate

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