How much of statistics are involved in Psychology?

I'm a senior in high school currently and I'm trying to figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life. I'm really into psychology and I am thinking about majoring in psychology in college. My preference for a career right now is to become a forensic psychologist, but I am not good at math at all. I was wondering if statistics are a huge part of psychology if you want to major in it? Currently, I am taking AP statistics at my high school, and I just do not understand it.

How much of statistics are involved in Psychology?
Statistics are a big part of the field.





Don't get discouraged about the stats. I did not do well in my first statistics course in college, I didn't understand anything. But then I took another course as an elective and something clicked. I loved the course and everything started to come into focus. I finished my undergrad and then got my master's in statistics. the material can be challenging for some, but if you keep looking at it you'll be able to get the stats.





and if you have to do a lot stats in your work you can always hire a statistician to do it! (actually it's not a bad idea. The statistician can help you design the experiment from the start so that the data collected will give you the best statistical, reproducible and meaningfull results.)
Reply:Yes it is.





Ultimately, research leads to data, data is useless until you know how it relates to a given sample space.





If you don't get involved in the research end of things, I imagine that it wouldn't be necessary for you to compile them, but you will need to understand them.





I have always wondered in anyone ever did a breakdown of "rapid eye movement" therapy? I doubt it is any more effective than the placebo effect.
Reply:It depends on the school and on your specialty.





Psychology at Georgia Tech has a LOT of calculus, statistics, etc.





Clinical Psych rarely has any.





Forensic psych - i would expect it to be in the middle.
Reply:Yes psychology is based on statistics and like any subject, the more in depth you study it the more difficult it gets. Statistics are different somewhat from things like algebra, on the whole, because the statistics you will need to know is based more on concepts and ideas. You will need to know theories and rules about statistics rather than formulas- we have computer programs to do the actual math for us. It gets much more complicated than percentiles and means. However, an understanding of math can't hurt- when psiexploration said statistics doesnt involve algebra he was very wrong- in fact analyses such as a factor analysis are based on matrix algebra. The better you know algebra, the better you will know stats

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