Reviews of professor Curry Hilton

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was fairly easy. Don't read the textbook but write down the formulas and you should be fine. Never trust what he says about tests in class since he usually changes his mind last minute about what he wants to put on his tests so you never know. Lectures can go off-topic fairly easy. GO TO LAB so TAs can help you with lab assignments.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Curry is a great guy but not a great professor. He says prior coding experience is not needed but it would have been really helpful as the whole class is taught in R Studio. His lectures were funny but sporadic which made note taking difficult, and the tests did not have enough questions. Ex) One question on exam 1 was worth 8% of our class grade!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
OK SO LISTEN UP Y'ALL, CURRY HILTON IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO DUKE. Hilarious professor. Loves his students. Answers emails at the speed of light. Easy exams. Practically holds your hand through practice problems and coding R. No, you don't need to know bio. Yes, forget STA101 and take STA102 with him. What an icon.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you didn't take AP stat in high school run. You have to teach yourself pretty much everything and his lectures are useless. Tests are open note but if you rely on that and don't teach yourself everything he never mentioned in class you wont have time to finish.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
His Stats class was super easy, for me at least (I did take AP Stats in high school). The tests are open note and open internet, but they're easy enough where that isn't really even necessary. There's also weekly labs, problem sets, and "performance assessments," which are online multiple choice quizzes (also open note and internet).

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you don't have any Stats background, this class is HARD. I have background in R but none in Statistics and found his lectures to be very convoluted. I don't feel like the exams represented the content. Exams were open note and you get a cheat sheet which is all well and fine except you could see people texting their friends and googling answers.