If you have a child who is going to high school, let them take AP Statistics a few times until they become very proficient in statistics.
Strategic thinking is critical in various fields, including medicine, business, engineering, and statistics. Statistics form the basis of real-life applications in current AI tools and beyond. We would be totally useless in the future without knowing basic statistics.
If I had to choose between calculus, trigonometry, algebra, and statistics, I would select statistics as my primary topic, and the others would be important too.
