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Podcast 2 // Bella, Andrew, Kristina, Kevin

Posted by Isabella Beato in Statistics - Miles - B on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 1:29 pm

​​All of our group members were present for this podcast. For this podcast we talked about the next four chapters of the book, chapters 4 through 8. Basically these chapters talked about misleading graphs and how people accomplish making these graphs. We also talked about an article Mr. Miles asked us to read. We kept with our same plan by writing everything out first then recording. Again we didn't have any conflict or disagreement. No questions came up this time around. Below are the graphs we referenced. 

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Podcast #2 : Joie, Espi, Sydne and Cameron

Posted by Joie Nearn in Statistics - Miles - B on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 1:28 pm

​Our group discussed the chapters 4-7. During these chapters we got a first hand look on the saying "How To Lie with Statistics". We learned that it is all about showing what you want and not showing all of your collected data. In chapter 5, it was quoted,"there is terror behind numbers." The point we got from that was that you can cut a graph off and withhold certain data to the audience at any point and it wouldn't be considered as changing the data, but showing what we want. 

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Super Freakonomics Podcast Part 2 - Ava Olsen and Michelle Friedman

Posted by Ava Olsen in Statistics - Miles - B on Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7:53 pm

​In the second installment of our podcast series about Superfreakonomics we discussed the first chapter, How Is a Street Prostitute Like a Department-Store Santa?, and the second chapter, Why Should Suicide Bombers Buy Life Insurance?. Though the two chapters covered a plethora of questions, studies, and data, we chose to discuss only a few of the topics that were the most interesting to us. We talked about the significant wage gap between equally qualified, professional men and women. Then, we investigated the critical emergency room procedures that make for the best and worst patient outcomes. Chapter two also showed us that doctor review criteria can be extremely flawed and ought to be taken with a grain of sand when choosing your doctor. Overall, these two chapters showed us a lot of new numbers on interesting subjects and we’ve learned to always investigate the nuances that can affect data results.

Click here to listen to our second podcast!
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How To Lie With Statistics Ep. 1

Posted by Stephanie Dyson in Statistics - Miles - B on Monday, May 16, 2016 at 8:59 pm

This is podcast 1 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 Hershey, 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. 

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The group explores the overarching themes, the author's writing style, the helpfulness of the illustrations and the specific ideas within the Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2. We look at various questions that often take a more psychological turn. We questioned why people lie in statistical situations, looking at how stats turns people into numbers and tries to make sense of things on a macro-scale. We also did some personal reflection on how statistics makes us question nearly everything that we hear for the better(and had some fun towards the end trying to personify the subject itself).

Enjoy and stay tuned with the squad as we continue to go forth with our inquiry on the novel! 

Music is provided for free by Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment's debut album, "Surf", which dropped May 2015.
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Podcast #1 : Joie, Espi, Sydne and Cameron

Posted by Joie Nearn in Statistics - Miles - B on Monday, May 16, 2016 at 9:49 am

During the this podcast we discussed chapter's 1-3. We discussed the topics from each chapter and related them back to real life situations. Esperanza also read out some discussion questions that she came up with herself while she did her reading which allowed us to get other different opinions and commonalities that we shared while reading on our own as well. It was very easy to have a conversation with 4 people because there was more opinions involved and ideas that were shared. Having a nice lay out of the conversation also helps because there's very few pausing moments which makes the podcast a much richer material. 

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Super Freakonomics Podcast Part 1 - Ava Olsen and Michelle Friedman

Posted by Ava Olsen in Statistics - Miles - B on Friday, May 13, 2016 at 10:52 am

This is our first installment of our Super Freakonomics podcast series. We intended for the podcast to be a lot shorter, but we couldn't help but get more in depth into the extremely interesting topics that this book has to offer. Although this is only the introduction segment that summarizes and discusses the introduction of the book, for our future podcasts, we plan on cutting down our speaking time if this poses a problem. This prologue chapter (introduction to the book) highlighted a plethora of issues involving statistics and a necessity for a deep understanding of math and how these situations relate to it. Each subject/category that was introduced is pretty much completely unrelated, but each is tied together with statistical comparisons and economics that make the topics alluring and hard to believe. We examined many of the key stories that we think were important to take apart and really understand. Our intended audience should be interested in math and how it relates to things happening over time and what they mean for the populations that are involved.

Click here to listen to our very first podcast!
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Podcast 1 // Bella, Andrew, Kristina, Kevin

Posted by Isabella Beato in Statistics - Miles - B on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 6:26 pm

All of our group members were present for this podcast. During this podcast we discussed the first four chapters of the book and the introduction section. We just basically discussed each chapter and talked about the key points. We also talked about the writing style of this book and said that maybe we should of read this book in the first week of class. We did this by having a pre discussion and writing things a white board. By doing this we got all of our thoughts out and were able to have a smoother conversation. We didn't have any points of conflict or disagreement during this discussion. The only real question that came up was the question "is there a such thing as a good sample?" We hope you enjoy.

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