Group Members:

What Our Group Discussed:

Chapters 4, 5, 6, and 7.

How We Discussed It:

To discuss this we started at Chapter 4 and went in chronological order by chapter numbers. We talked with each other and brought up points that we liked or may not have liked.

Any Points of Conflict/Disagreement In Discussion:

Not really but Tyi was the only one that was constantly finding things that she did not like in the book. Or it would be something that she disliked. Other than that there was no disagreements.

Questions:

There were really no questions that came up. Sometimes we would ask for each others clarification on certain topics but other than that none.

(Chapters 9 and 10.)

Group Members:

Lexy Babcock

Goldie Robins

Jessica Maiorano

Gabby Santaniello

What Our Group Discussed:

We discussed chapters 9 and 10.

How We Discussed It:

We went through chapters 9 and 10 in order. We spent most of the time trying to discuss the chapters to understand what the author was saying. We gave a nice little conclusion to the book and our new perspective on statistics.

Any Points of Conflict/Disagreement In Discussion:

During our individual reading time, we all had a difficult time understanding these last two chapters. We had to explain the information to one another.

Questions:

Because of the fact that like each of our podcasts are twenty minutes and we split them into four, we don't have any questions for this section. 

Group Members:

Lexy Babcock

Goldie Robins

Jessica Maiorano

Gabby Santaniello

What Our Group Discussed:

We discussed chapters 6, 7, and 8.

How We Discussed It:

We went chronologically through chapters 6, 7, and 8. We brought up examples from the text and outside sources. We researched articles and presented and discussed them. We also discussed an article provided for us by Mr. Miles.

Any Points of Conflict/Disagreement In Discussion:

We've never really experienced conflict within our podcasts. We continue to explain ideas and examples to each other and talk out any misunderstandings of the reading.

Questions:

We didn't have questions for this one, we just needed to include an article that contains a misleading draft from each one of the group members. We also discussed an article provided by Mr. Miles.

Lexy's Article:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/20/3078461/9-climate-charts-2013/

Goldie's Article:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/sat-scores-and-family-income/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Gabby's Article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/12/11/how-gun-control-is-losing-badly-in-charts/

Jess' Article: 

http://www.climatecentral.org/gallery/graphics/its-official-2012-is-hottest-us-year-on-record

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/

Group Members Present: Jalen S. Robbie M. Sarybel M. Rose K.

What your book club discussed:

This session we talked about chapters 4,5&6

How you discussed it:

In the last session we realized how important it was to right done things that stuck out to us so that we would have things to distinctly talk about. We also followed the same format as we did previously of talking chapter by chapter so that we could easily follow. This time we also tied in outside articles as examples of what the book had been talking about.

Any points of conflict/disagreement in discussion:

Even though some points that were made were more controversial than last time, there was still overall agreement. We all talked about while creating misleading graphs is clever and all for the business it is tough for the consumers. The point was made that it seems to be worse for it to be made for government than for food or toothpaste advertisements. This point could have been disagreed on but overall everyone was on the same page. 

Questions that came up as a result of the discussion:

At one point Jalen brought up a good questions about whether or not it was ok to change the y-axis on the graph and fabricating statements by adding adjectives was really a situation that no one could pin something on you and have that be ok. 

* We will add the links to the articles once we have them all. 

Iphone Sales:  http://qz.com/122921/the-chart-tim-cook-doesnt-want-you-to-see/

Colgate:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1539715/Colgate-gets-the-brush-off-for-misleading-ads.html

Jalen: http://www.statisticshowto.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/new-haven-ct.jpg

(Chapter Three, Chapter Four, and Chapter Five)

Group Members:

Lexy Babcock

Goldie Robins

Jessica Maiorano

Gabby Santaniello

What Our Group Discussed:

We discussed Chapters 3 to 5.

How We Discussed It:

We mostly stayed in chronological order and went through each of the following chapters: 3, 4, and 5. For each chapter, we tried to pull out some different ideas and examples from the book. Some individual group members picked out things that others didn't notice. 

Any Points of Conflict/Disagreement In Discussion:

We mostly agreed. We had a few points of discussing an idea to better the understanding of another group member. 

Questions answered:

1. Choose one of the quotations inside the front cover and discuss how it relates to the Introduction.
2. Put the second paragraph on Page 18 (“A river cannot….”) into your own words.
3. 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?

*ALSO, We are going to include the articles in the next podcast with chapter 6 discussion.