@134318c2 I really don't like the framing of "replacement" or treating stats as somehow "easier" at all. 

Like I've seen people who have masters degrees in other disciplines trip over themselves with even basic probability and stats.

I'd love to see greater literacy here (I could see an entire class based around Utts's "What Educated Citizens Should Know" paper https://ics.uci.edu/~jutts/AmerStat2003.pdf )… but it isn't a capstone, a replacement for calc, etc… and as you point out we don't have the buildup.