Hi GrayNess, I have a PhD in the biological sciences. I use statistics quite a bit in my current project, which is an epidemiological study. I have had to learn more statistics on my own than I covered in my undergraduate or graduate studies, particularly in the area of biostatistics. Depending on what sort of research you end up doing, you will use more or less statistics. People in social sciences research seem to use quite a bit, e.g. sociology, psychology, education. In all of those fields, if you go on to get an advanced degree, you will have to take graduate level statistics courses. And yes, you will need to use a computer for data analysis. You don't necessarily have to do computer programming and create your own stats programs, but there are various statistical software packages you will probably use.

It is probably very possible for you to take several statistics courses now, as an undergrad, beyond what a bio/psych major would typically take. You could just take these courses without getting a Minor in the field. Then you would have the knowledge but without all the requirements of the minor and hoops to jump through. Then you could really take the stats courses that are of most interest to you, whereas if you do a minor, there are probably set courses you must take to fulfill the requirements. Many departments tend to offer their own statistics courses, rather than all of them being offered by the math or statistics departments. So if you are interested in Education, you can take stats courses from the Education department, and so get stats that may be more "interesting" to you rather than just pure math. Same with psychology. Or whatever field you are interested in.

Statistics can be very practical. I wish I had taken more statistics, but not too much--there is really no way of knowing in advance what statistical techniques you will need in your future research. So I do my statistics learning now, rather than years ago in college.