Erick Gong

This course was pretty transformative. I gained a lot of confidence in my future plans to pursue a research career in economics. Professor Gong was a very clear and effective professor despite the challenging material and I appreciated how he taught us new, novel techniques. I didn't appreciate at the time how useful the skills I learned in the class would be and now that I've taken it I can't imagine having graduated without it. Absolutely recommend, very much so worth the effort if you want to pursue anything quantitative research-related.

This course was pretty transformative. I gained a lot of confidence in my future plans to pursue a research career in economics. Professor Gong was a very clear and effective professor despite the challenging material and I appreciated how he taught us new, novel techniques. I didn't appreciate at the time how useful the skills I lea …Read more

I am surprised by the majority of reviews on midd courses with regard to Gong's Econ stats class. Most of them praise Gong's teaching but acknowledge the difficulty of the exams and Gong's high standards of rigor. I disagree. In general, Gong is not great at teaching statistics. He is a great teacher of STATA code, which is partially helpful for the course. I had already taken AP statistics prior to the course and the entire statistics portion was review. The class was somewhat easy for me given that it was a review but I could see how other students struggled, not due to their lack of intelligence, but given Gong's inability to communicate introductory statistics (a simple subject) in lay terms. Moreover, Gong purposefully devises test questions that confuse students, which may test one's critical thinking skills in addition to their comprehension of the content. My high school AP stats teacher taught statistics better than Gong. Overall, he is quite enthusiastic and accommodating, but in my opinion, a poor lecturer.

I am surprised by the majority of reviews on midd courses with regard to Gong's Econ stats class. Most of them praise Gong's teaching but acknowledge the difficulty of the exams and Gong's high standards of rigor. I disagree. In general, Gong is not great at teaching statistics. He is a great teacher of STATA code, which is partially …Read more

Professor Gong is very passionate about Econ Stat. He did a very good job keeping every class engaging and is a fascinating person. The one complaint I have is the difficulty of the exams, writing STATA code on paper seemed overly tedious.