<p>I personally think Stats is cake but a few people I know who have taken both prefer Calculus. So I'm just curious what you all think :).</p>
<p>It really depends on the level of each subject, especially with statistics.</p>
<p>It depends on the person. Calculus and Statistics courses require you to think in different ways; different people have different abilities to think in either of those two ways.</p>
<p>If you are talking about 100 level intro stats versus calculus, the stats classes are almost always way easier. </p>
<p>But ThisCouldBeHeaven is right–it depends on the level of the class. There are advanced undergrad and graduate courses in statistics that are much more difficult than the calculus classes. </p>
<p>Stats really isn’t “cake”. Probabilities are tough to think about, I think.</p>
<p>A lot of it can depend on the professor too. I remember when I took the class the tests were roughly the length of our homeworks, and homeworks usually took a few hours. We had one hour for the test. No curve. It was also usually slightly more difficult than the HW. The next semester my friends took the class with a new professor and it was a cakewalk.</p>
<p>Both 100 level calculus and stats were similar for me. But advanced calculus was much more difficult than advanced stats, where I had professors trying to recruit me for the grad program. I did not understand the calc proofs, but the stats proofs made perfect sense. I figure I am a less theoretical person and a more applied person. Unfortunately, at the end of my degree, I realized I should have gotten a degree in stats and not math.</p>