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 Statistics: A way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the world.

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2  Statistics: A way of reasoning, along with a collection of tools and methods, designed to help us understand the world.

3  101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.  A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.  In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.

4  Distraction from cell phone use while driving (hand held or hands free) extends a driver's reaction as much as having a blood alcohol concentration at the legal limit of.08 percent. (University of Utah)  The No.1 source of driver inattention is use of a wireless device. (Virginia Tech/NHTSA)  Drivers that use cell phones are four times as likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. (NHTSA, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)  Driving while using a cell phone reduces the amount of brain activity associated with driving by 37 percent (Carnegie Mellon)

5  Who? Respondents,variables …  What? Variables (categorical or quantitative)  When? Present day or 1800’s  Where? USA or other  Why? The purpose of your data gathering  How? Census, internet study,…

6  Context  Data  Individuals  Variables  Categorical variables  Quantitative variables

7 GenderHandHeight (in)HW time(min) Favorite Music Pocket change (cents) FL65200Hip-hop50 ML7230Country35 MR6295Rock35 FL64120Alternative0 MR63220Hip-hop0 FR5860Alternative76 1.What individuals does this data set describe? 2.Identify the variables. Which are quantitative? Categorical? In what units are they measured? 3.Describe the individual in the last row.

8  A professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute  Focus’s on social and economic trends  Uses Gapminder statistical software that he co-founded.

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