Do not take this professor. Her video lectures are bad! She actually knows the topics, but she does not know how to explain. I would took a lecture with professor Spoon, and it is a lot better. I also heard Levine was not bad.

Duncans video lectures were outdated, very unclear and very disorganized. The lab TA was very unclear. It is very clear that neither the professor nor the TAs care about how the students do. Most kids will get Cs or below on tests and there isn't a curve. Hw is easy points, the labs are very unhelpful but Tas give answer so they're easy points.

Worst professor I have ever had so far. This is a hybrid class and there is no direct communication between you and the professor. The only teacher student interaction is with the TA. My TA was an international student who has a thick accent and was no able not understand anything to me. Eventually, the student is left alone. NEVER TAKE HER CLASS.

This class was terrible. The organization between the online content, the homework, and the in-class work is non existent. There is almost no correlation between the things learned except for that the content is statistics. The homework was not about things we learned how to do in class, and the textbook was not helpful in solving problems.

This is an online class with an in-person lab. There are videos you watch weekly where you get graded on notes when in lab. The videos do not correlate to the lab, and the lab or videos do not correlate to the homework. This class is super unorganized and not well thought out. The Lab coordinator and professor obviously have a lack of communication

WORST and most stressful class ever. You have to teach ourself everything. GO TO STATS TUTORING IN THE LIBRARY. Extremely hard class. Huge curve. 60% C . You never meet the actual teacher, on the TA. All the TA's have super thick accents. Take Lou Li for a TA, she'll actually teach you something. Tests and quizzes are open note.

This class is a nightmare. The lectures make no sense and confused me more than helped me. The lab has no relevance to the lectures and the TAs also seem confused by Dr. Duncan. The only thing helpful is the homework. Don't take this class if you don't have to.

It was an online class, you would watch a lecture and you had to take notes, you would then have to come into class once a week for a lab in which you would have a quiz. The labs were longer then they needed to be and honestly a waste of time, but you had to go. I feel like I didn't learn anything and I struggled through the whole class.

As someone who has excelled in every math class I have taken, this one was the hardest not because the concepts were difficult but because Duncan rarely explained concepts clearly. She rarely explains how to calculate things and were she got certain numbers from which makes it confusing to understand how to approach problems.

If you don't need this class for your major do yourself a favor and DON'T take it. While she is very helpful if you reach out to her, she doesn't know how to properly explain concepts in lecture, especially leaving out how to do calculations on your calculator, leaving you lost. The workload is honestly easy but still avoid this class at all costs.

I think that this class should not be a hybrid course. Her videos did not explain the concepts or how to solve the problems. She just said that you do this but did not explain how you are supposed to solve the problem which made understanding the material very difficult. All her lectures are pre-recorded which means that you can't ask any questions

This is the worst class I have ever taken. She clearly doesn't know how to teach properly. All she does is write the definitions of words on the notes she gives us but rarely explains the concept further than that. She rarely explains how to calculate problems and when she does she leaves out many critical steps which is no help. Avoid this class

LISTEN. If you don't need this class to fulfill your major prerequisite, don't take it. To be honest, this is the worst class I've ever taken at state. She does not explain the material good enough. The labs are pretty tough and they don't even help. You need to put in a LOT of effort to actually understand and pass the class. BIG CURVE btw

NOT WORTH. 70% of your grade is exams. Was told to not study homework problems because it wouldn't help me on the test. Also, reverse classroom, so watch a bunch of videos to then sit in front of your screen and do pointless labs during actual class time.

Her lecture videos are very confusing to understand. I didnt like the way she teaches because you need to remember vocab a lot in her class.

The video lectures were really hard to understand, she expects the students to know everything that she is talking about in her video lectures even though we met for one day of the week for labs and did not go over the videos. It is also a fast paced class and it has multiple quizzes as well as 2 midterms (20% each) and a final (30% of your grade).

Professor isn't even there to teach the class which doesn't help the students learn. Mostly just following the lecture videos and filling in the blanks for notes and when we are in person for class all we do is work that we could've done at home. Class is a hot mess that is hard to follow

STATS MINORS BEWARE: 410 is a VERY difficult class because there are no lectures, just lazy videos that barely explain anything. Yes, she glazes over theory; however, all the R commands would have to be learned on your own and R is not a language with set syntax rules. Get ready to learn on your own and attempt to finish labs with lazy group mbrs.

Unless you are an amazing test taker, you need to avoid this class. 70% of the grade is from 3 tests, one of them being the final. There are no curves, test corrections are really anything to bring your grade up besides the in-class assignments. Homework had no effect on my grade. Duncan never, not once, came to class and the TA "taught" the class.

Horrible. Duncan's lectures are not in-depth and if I had to guess they were probably recorded 3-7 years ago. The tests are your entire grade, and there are only 3 so if you do bad on one, there is nothing you can do to drastically help your grade. I have all A's beside this class as a stem major, so if you think that this is an easy A, good luck.

Avoid at all cost. Her lectures are so long as well as the group labs which half of the people in your group ignored you until the day of it was due. The class structure is awful. If you asked a question she would make you feel dumb about not knowing the material in your past classes.

Worst professor I have ever had. She divided the class into 8 sections all taught by TA's. This was supposed to be a fully online class but we were required to come in one day a week for "labs" and exams. You have to watch her terrible lectures online on your own time. Did I saw this class was TERRIBLE? Yup. Don't take it.

While I can forgive Professors who can't teach because they're there to reserach, with Duncan's case she isn't even tenured. She's bad at explaining the concepts, and would often assign homework that is not related to the quizzes or exams. She also relies on the mandatory videos to do her teaching as well. Not recommended if you can avoid her.

The way the class is set up is very lazy and low effort on her part.

One of the worst professors I ever had. Her lectures are online and then we go to a lab class once a week taught by a TA. The online lectures extremely hard to follow, she doesn't explain concepts thoroughly, and the class has a very unfair weight with two midterms weighted at 20%, and a final weighted 30%, so 70% of your grade is based on tests.

Awful.

Absolutely horrible. She's too lazy to teach the class herself so you're gonna end up taking it with one of the many clueless TA's who won't bother teaching you a single thing. Maybe this course isn't difficult but the structure makes it way more complicated then it needs to be. I wouldn't recommend unless you have to in which case good luck...

horrible class

I have taken two classes (410 and 250) with Professor Duncan, and I can safely say I would avoid her if at all possible. Her lecture style is confusing and often not directly related to the material you'll be tested on. She's also a bit too heavy on homework and other assignments.

Difficult class, professor does provide help outside of lecture, lecture style quite confusing, avoid taking if you can

The structure of this class is awful. Avoid at all costs. The lectures videos & notes take a long time to do, and she does not explain the concepts well at all. Lab does not help, it's just activities.

As someone who loves math and stats, the set up of this course is very bad which causes such low grades. No not use homework as study material. Try to take the lab specifically with Dr. Duncan because the TA's tends to just give away answers. Most classes are heavily curved at the end due to so many students in the brink of failure. Good Luck!

The online lectures are very old and there are lots of mistakes that you need you be aware of. She is very nice, but she goes over the problems without explaining why we're taking the corresponding steps. She implies that we already know a majority of the material and kind of goes through the problems on her own.

Effectively absent from the class, leaving the soulless TAs to do her bidding. All the lectures are old and full of mistakes and the only way to learn is through said lectures, as she is completely absent from the course.

She's a sweet lady but genuinely does not know how to teach. Lectures are really old, online, and are guided notes format which but half of the words on the slides don't even make sense. If you have to have to take this class, good luck. Find study buddies and take advantage of all the quizzes and preparation, and use the study guides from the TA.