Tierney is a great prof, but be prepared to write down everything he says! His builds his exams based on the discussions had in the lectures that year so they are kinda personalized every year. Because of this, I'd say attendance is mandatory because most of what he lectures about isn't directly stated on slides. The textbook is optional but incredibly helpful/informative! So if you don't understand some topics you should definitely try reading that section in the textbook.

I found the content to be super interesting, however there is a lot of content! Not everything in class mentioned is important but Tierney really likes giving the whole picture for most concepts which is awesome. I will say though because there is so much content, you should be interested in this course to be able to keep up with it all.

Very knowledgeable, spoke fast and quickly at times. Sometimes hard to keep up with because he would just talk so much and the things he was saying wouldn't be on the slides.

Be prepared to take lots of notes! Most slides are just an image or graph and then we as a class discuss and draw conclusions from it, and these often show up as test questions!

Do NOT procrastinate in this class. I never really found a way that studying worked for me in this class, but that being said I still passed (thanks to the term paper which is way more my strong suit). I would approach this class based on what works for you and that may take some trial and error, but put in the time.

Get BOTH textbooks. For me, I'm good at arguing and debate and that side of law, but when I get to a question that says "choose the best answer" it all goes downhill. If you have the same problem I suggest practicing those types of questions. It has kinda SAT like questions, so if you were an ACT person, like me, you are going to have to work for it a bit more

I remember not knowing what study edge was when I took this course, and I'm really glad. When it comes to study edge, I find statistic classes are not well taught based on the structure. Get the packet she tells you to at the beginning of class and watch her videos because the exams are exactly relevant. As always, do the exam review.

She is one of the only professor who actually taught me something instead of me scrambling through study edge or smokn notes, so huge props to her

Just watch the supplemental videos you don't even have to watch the lectures to succeed. Do the review packets; they're similar to the exam

Knight is an absolute sweetheart and sets you up for success you just have to follow through.