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I can't speak for the Stanford program in particular, but Comm Studies increasingly views itself as a social science, and like psychology, sociology etc. employs statistics to analyze human behavior.  Many of the scholarly articles in the discipline are quite quantitative in nature.  See, for example, the many books and articles by comm studies people analyzing internet behavior.

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I can't speak for the Stanford program in particular, but Comm Studies increasingly views itself as a social science, and like psychology, sociology etc. employs statistics to analyze human behavior.  Many of the scholarly articles in the discipline are quite quantitative in nature.  See, for example, the many books and articles by comm studies people analyzing internet behavior.