POL SCI M170X
Causality X
Grades
3.43
Average grade awarded in POL SCI M170X. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
70%
of the 10 letter grades
D, F or W
10.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 10 grades over 1 term, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 3 · 30.0%
- A 4 · 40.0%
- B+ 1 · 10.0%
- B 1 · 10.0%
- F 1 · 10.0%
Percentages are of the 10 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes.
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Summer Session A 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HAZLETT, CHAD J reviews ↗ | 3.49 | 3.43 | 10 · | 1 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
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From the registrar's catalog
(Same as Statistics M169.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: course 6 or Statistics 10 or 12 or 13, and Statistics 20. Strongly recommended: Mathematics 170E or Statistics 100A. Causal claims—claims that one thing affects another—are central to life choices, science, and policy. They are very difficult to substantiate and often misleading. The data revolution makes various forms of association easier to discover, but in many cases does not help to affirm whether an observed association reflects the implied causal relationship. The larger datasets grow, the more easily non-causal associations can rise to the level of being noticed and mistakenly used as causal. Study builds conceptual and formal analytical skills required to evaluate causal claims through a focus on conceptual work and more technical analytic methods. Reading and critiquing studies and reporting of studies at a conceptual level. Use of online tools to review statistics and R-coding. Improvement of conceptual understandings by examining the statistical tools used to understand, work with, and make causal claims in a variety of circumstances. P/NP or letter grading.
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