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How to Lie With Statistics Pt. 2

Posted by Stephanie Dyson in Statistics - Miles - B on

This is podcast 2 of a 3-podcast series that dissects the novel, "How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. The book itself explores the various ways that statistics are altered and used outright incorrectly to project a certain image, convey a certain feeling, or produce a certain outcome within the masses. 
In this series, Stephanie Dyson, Dillon Hersey, Maggie Clampet-Lundquist and Sean Morris look into the various themes that comprise the book and dissect what this means, not only for their high school stats class, but for the world around them.


In this podcast: 
We looked at Chapters 3 through 7 for this episode, but used the quotes in the beginning of the book to guide our conversation.Then, we took a look at how Huff explained that graphs can be misconstrued in various ways in The Gee Whiz Graph. From there, we took a look at the farce that is modern media, exploring the ways that news organizations use those various methods all the time to show “statistics” when they’re really not showing anything at all (the graphs we referenced are all pictured below). Lastly, we spoke briefly on the background information you need when thinking about averages so that you can most accurately convey your information. We also brainstormed some new titles for the book by accident, but they're not too shabby. I hope you enjoy this episode. Stay tuned for our final podcast, which will dive into chapters 8 through 10 to finish out the book. 

Music is provided for free by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment's debut album, "Surf", which dropped May 2015.
The Graph Dillon mentioned concerning abortions and cancer screenings. Read the full article here: http://www.stats.org/the-graph-that-launched-a-thousand-news-stories/
The graph Maggie mentioned concerning car crashes across different age groups. Read the full article here:http://www.econoclass.com/misleadingstats.html
The graph Stephanie mentioned concerning Stand Your Ground laws in Florida. Read the full article here: http://usvsth3m.com/post/82779802419/creator-defends-graph-that-appears-to-erroneously-show

How to Lie With Statistics Pt. 3 (Finale)

Posted by Stephanie Dyson in Statistics - Miles - B on

This is podcast 3 of a 3-podcast series that dissects the novel, "How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. The book itself explores the various ways that statistics are altered and used outright incorrectly to project a certain image, convey a certain feeling, or produce a certain outcome within the masses. 
In this series, Stephanie Dyson, Dillon Hersey, Maggie Clampet-Lundquist and Sean Morris look into the various themes that comprise the book and dissect what this means, not only for their high school stats class, but for the world around them.


In this podcast: 
We looked at Chapters 8-10, closing out the book and the project with out final thoughts on the novel. We also took the chance to connect some of our knowledge gained from HtLwS to other classes that we're taking. Overall, we found the project as a whole to be our favorite math benchmark to date (because we did so little math, but learned so much more than we intended) and were pleased with the ending. Now, it's time to apply all of this knowledge to the real world. 
In the meantime, we hope you enjoyed our podcasts. Look at the next blog post for a compilation of all three!

Music is provided for free by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment's debut album, "Surf", which dropped May 2015.

How to Lie With Statistics - Full Compilation

Posted by Stephanie Dyson in Statistics - Miles - B on

This is a compilation of a 3-podcast series that dissects the novel, "How To Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff. The book itself explores the various ways that statistics are altered and used outright incorrectly to project a certain image, convey a certain feeling, or produce a certain outcome within the masses. 
In this series, Stephanie Dyson, Dillon Hersey, Maggie Clampet-Lundquist and Sean Morris look into the various themes that comprise the book and dissect what this means, not only for their high school stats class, but for the world around them.

As promised, here is a compilation of all three podcasts in our mini-series. Enjoy!

Music is provided for free by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment's debut album, "Surf", which dropped May 2015.

Final Podcast, Imani and Amirah

Posted by Imani Weeks in Statistics - Miles - B on

This podcast is about the chapters 7-10. In these final chapters we did the same thing for all of the others which is observe. This conversation was about all of the key things that were said in each chapter. We asked questions and even answered some of our own questions. There was some confusion with what the book was saying but then it was cleared up. 
3rd podcast - 6:3:16, 4.18 PM

Podcast #3 - Ilker, Jamie & Brian

Posted by Ilker Erkut in Statistics - Miles - B on

In our final podcast, Brian, Jamie and I talked about chapters 7,8,9 and 10.  In these chapters, we do a lot of connecting.  Everything can be connected back to previous chapters.  Chapter 10 answers many of the questions that we had when we first started the book.  Chapters 7 & 8 talked about other statistical lies.  Chapter 9 basically summed up all of the lies and explained how to lie with statistics.  Chapter 10 was telling us how to find statistical lies so we do not fall for the statistical lies we read about in the book. 

3rd & Final Podcast-How to Lie with Statistics- Tiarra & Lindsey

Posted by Lindsey Jones in Statistics - Miles - B on

Hello & Goodbye! It's us Lindsey and Tiarra back with our third and final podcast. In this recording, we cover chapters 8,9 and 10 and then have a goodbye discussion and even discuss the introduction at some point. The format of our discussions are formed around discussing the chapter and what it was about itself, analyzing it, and then having a discussion/question period. We agreed with each other for the most part.It was a great experience and we loved working together and talking about the book.

Thank you!

Here is the 3rd podcast:

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Here is the FULL podcast from chapter 1-chapter 10


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Second podcast, Imani and Amirah

Posted by Imani Weeks in Statistics - Miles - B on

Podcast number 2 - 6:3:16, 3.37 PM
This second podcast is from chapter 3-6. We figured they were pretty much the same, so we combined them into one podcast. We talked about how some of the things talked about in the book relates to us to a certain extent. We made observation about things in class that we talked about already in regards to this book. 

Podcast 3 // Bella, Andrew, Kristina, Kevin

Posted by Isabella Beato in Statistics - Miles - B on

All of our group members were present for this podcast. We talked about the last 2 chapters of the book, 9 and 10. Chapter 9 was basically like a summary of all the methods people use to lie with stats. Chapter 10 was a summary of how to point out these lies and what questions to ask. Our plan was the same with writing everything out than recording. We didn't have any conflicts or questions. 
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