Podcast #1

Posted by Jada Terrell in Statistics - Miles - C on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 2:15 pm

How to Lie with Statistics

Speakers: Jada Terrell, Isabella Blackwell, and Kadija Koita

For this podcast, we talked about chapters 1-2 of the book. The main ideas we discussed were about collecting data sets and how we go about them. We noticed the different examples he used in the book to talk about how to choose samples and about bias, and we talked about our experience with collecting data in the past and how particularly our biases have influenced our data collection.

Comments (1)

Mark Miles

Good first podcast.

For next time, make sure you respond to the following prompts:

Choose one of the quotations inside the front cover and discuss how it relates to the Introduction.
When we see an average reported, what do we need to ask besides which kind of average is being used? Why?
Explain why advertisers often rely on a very small sample to substantiate their claims.
What does the author mean on Page 45 when he says, “Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way…?”

Finally, when discussing chapters 3, 5, or 6, incorporate the following article into your discussion:

http://gizmodo.com/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization-1563576606

Also, each member of your group should find an article online containing a misleading graph and discuss it during the podcast (be sure to talk about why it’s misleading!). Be sure to include a link to all articles in the text of your post of the podcast that corresponds to chapters 3, 5, or 6.