Session #2

Posted by Robert Jenkins in Statistics - Miles - B on Monday, May 26, 2014 at 12:48 pm

Group Members Present: Robert, Martez Markietra, and Niyala

What your book club discussed:

This session we talked about chapters 2-6

How you discussed it:

Asked questions related to the text and had a discussion about them.

Any points of conflict/disagreement in discussion: We could not agree on how making a study to support an idea is not lying.

Rob-http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/stat3.html

Markierta - http://www.forbes.com/sites/naomirobbins/2012/02/16/misleading-graphs-figures-not-drawn-to-scale/

Comments (1)

Mark Miles

Good discussion, but where are the links to your articles? For next time, please respond to the following prompts:

When we see an average reported, what do we need to ask besides which kind of average is being used? Why?
Which kind of “average” (statisticians call all three “measures of central tendency”) would give me the best way to compare the performance of two classes of a required math course? Why?