I learned my statistics in the context of a moderately stats-heavy experimental science grad program, not in a formal stats course, but in a content course. That was actually a fun setting for learning stats. I did follow it up a few years later with a formal social science stats course, which admittedly was most entertaining for its people-watching opportunities.

I would definitely agree that it helps considerably to contextualize stats. And that that is true for most academic topics.

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