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trey3

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  1. Hello! First off I did read the top thread about SOPs and so I know that they aren't too important. That said... I'm struggling writing one. I do have motivations for why I want to go to graduate school (want to do research, develop methodologies etc. and also apply it to help people analyze social issues) that is convincingly motivated by my background and life. And I have a math background so I am confident that I could handle the sophistication of a graduate school program. But I don't have enough experience doing statistics to be able to (in my opinion) convincingly talk about research interests. Like sure I could say that I read about e.g. machine learning or Bayesian inference in a book and I think it's really interesting, but I have never actually done serious work in them so does it really mean anything to say that? I just think it'd sound really fake and sounds like I'm really just using buzzwords (which honestly isn't so far from the truth). And without any real research interest, is there a way that I can convince graduate schools that I'm serious, or that they should take a chance on me? And is there any way that I can convince a school that I am seriously interested in their program when I don't even have a real research interest? I hope what I am asking is making sense. Thank you in advance for all of the help.
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