But it is important, helping one to become an intelligent consumer of quantitative information. Quantitative information flies at us all the time. The front page of CNN has a poll you can take. A spicy poll. People have to evaluate studies they read about or their doctors might refer to.
Statistics are scientific and objective.
You have to believe them. For many, STAT100 is the only statistics course they'll ever take. It's our one chance to prevent people from falling into one of those funks. Statistics should not be feared nor disdained. Every undergraduate has to take at least one course in math, stat, or cs.