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I mean, that's a pretty accurate description of Statistics as a field.

>>excali+(OP)
For statistics, that's okay, though. The whole point of statistics is doing stuff with 20, 50, 100 or more item datasets and trying to make sense of them.

For calculus, that's not so good. To have any intuition about calculus you need to be really proficient at algebra and graphing--by hand.

When you apply calculus in engineering and physics, sure, use the calculator. But when it's just calc, it really needs to be structured to be able to be done by hand.