Although some people think Freeman is too dry and doesn't explain the statistics aspects well enough, I really enjoyed his lecture. The tests got harder as the semester went on, but there was never an overwhelming amount of material.

Psyc majors must take this class with freeman. attend lectures and go to lab T.A. you will definitely do well

he is a hard teacher but in the end you will know the material

Ridiculous insistence on 4-function calculator. Easy class if you've had stat before--unless you mistakeningly decide to not go to several lectures, so miss the deceptive way he asks questions. Kind of study-intensive for tests, b/c everything in the class learned is fair game (every test is cummulative). Lab takes a ridiculous amount of time, is graded harshly (ie: most papers have 1 or 0 A's for each ta) and the procedure for getting/switching a lab is ridiculous as well.

This class is a game:
can you do 8th grade math on a 4 function calculator?
can you remember lots of un-useful terms and rules long enough to make it through a test?
can you make profound conclusions from remarkably un-profound observation studies?
Don't take this class if you don't have to, is all I'm saying.

So you have to take PSYC305... this class was a headache from the beginning, starting with the psyc department's asinine waitlist procedures (they refuse to use the University's waitlist). I beg you to spare yourself and take this class with someone other than Professor Freedman. There are two pieces to this course- the lab and the lecture. The lab was great, and Sameer Bawa did an amazing job making it fun for our small section. The lecture however was a frustrating throwback to bad high school classes, this time in big lecture style for added fun! You will learn very simple concepts but at a frustratingly slow pace that makes lectures seem worthless, and then midterms will not test concepts that are not very relevant, but rather will test your ability to perform statistical analysis with a four-function calculator (required) and your ability to remember arbitrary rules Professor Freedman makes you memorize which do not even coorespond with other standards in statistics or psychology (thus why you have to go to lectures anyway). Avoid it if you can... or if you have to take it with him, don't worry about actually learning anything except how to "play the game" to get a decent grade.