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Hubbard2019DataAnalysisThoughts
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Statistics can lead to false information. People might believe in them because its what other people are saying. They could be unfair, or could not. Statistics are information that people put down to show you information which can be misleading.
After reading:
We are likely only to know about a few personal cases, and not overall. Individual cases can be biased. Statistics can give us a better understanding than individual ones.
Statistics also have negatives. Faulty statistics, bad sampling, unfair poll questions, statistics that are true but misleading, ranking statistics, and qualifiers on statistics.
We should be careful when looking at them. They can be good, but at the same time, misleading.
FAULTY STATISTICS
“86% of statistics are made up on the spot, you know – the remaining 24% are mathematically flawed. – From an internet message board.”
If we put exact numbers in stuff people would believe it more then just ‘most’ or something.
BAD SAMPLING
Just because you ask a few people on things doesn’t mean everyone thinks the same. Also it depends who you ask, where your asking it, and if they get to choose to respond or not.
UNFAIR POLL QUESTIONS
Sometimes the questions are worded to get a specific answer out of you.
STATISTICS THAT ARE TRUE BUT MISLEADING
The statistics can be true but they can pick which numbers from there to show you. They can pick the start and end points and make it seem like however they want.
RANKING STATISTICS
Its not really clear what category it can be in. Another is it doesn’t tell us much about the actual amount.
QUALIFIERS ON STATISTICS
How you describe something might not seem important but really is.
PERCENTAGES
It depends on the total amount. Sometimes they might give a % to make it seem more, or sometimes they would rather say the actual number.
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Grammar Video Project – “Modifiers – Misplaced and Dangling modifiers”
on Misplaced and dangling modifiers. They are similar, but not the same. Misplaced is when the thing your describing, is put in a wrong place causing it to sound weird or confusing. While dangling is when it’s not clear, or doesn’t make sense. Here are some examples. This one is a misplaced modifier.
“While she was jogging, Rose found a blue guy’s hat.”
In that example, how its written, it seems like the guy was blue. Since it says ‘Blue guy’s hat’ If you want it to make it so that the hat was blue, you would put it like,
“While she was jogging, Rose found a guy’s blue hat.”
Sometimes moving just a word would fix a misplaced modifier. Or you might need to move a couple of words. But for dangling modifiers, sometimes you need to add a few more words.
“While looking at the sun, the clouds started to rain.”
It’s not really clear who’s looking at the sun. Since ‘the clouds’ is right after, it sounds like the clouds are looking at the sun. So you need to add someone. Like add a subject.
“While I was looking at the sun, I saw the clouds were starting to rain.”
It’s sometimes confusing to tell whether it’s a misplaced or dangling modifier. Dangling modifiers are usually missing something, like a person. So it would make the sentence unclear of who or what its describing. When you fix a dangling sentence, it usually takes a few more words, or sometimes rearranging the whole sentence. Misplaced sentences are describing the wrong thing. So that it sounds crazy or weird. All you need to do is move one or a few words so that it sounds normal again.
Misplaced and dangling modifiers – Mini test
Fix the following sentences:
(Misplaced modifiers)
- They saw a bird behind the dog flying.
- Crying on the examination table, the doctor gave the small child his vaccine.
(Dangling modifiers)
- Raised in Texas, it is natural to like barbecue
- before finishing breakfast, the cereal was soggy
- At the age of 5, my father took me to Mexico
*ANSWERS*
#1 They saw a bird flying behind the dog
Now the modifier describes the bird and not the dog.
#2 The doctor gave the small child crying on the examination table his vaccine.
The modifier now correctly describes the child as crying, not the doctor.
#3 Raised in Texas, I natural to like barbecue
Now there’s a known subject and we know who was raised in Texas.
#4 Before I finished breakfast, my cereal was soggy
We now have a subject and know for sure that the cereal was soggy before I finished breakfast
#5 When I was five, my father took me to Mexico
The original meaning of the sentence before it got transformed would mean that when my father was five years old his own father took him to Mexico which is not what the writer was implying
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Chemistry in My World
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Video about SIM card. No voiceover, only music. Music and pictures are not mine.
My summary of the video: SIM cards are made from silicon. Silicon, gold, plastic, and a bit of phosphorus. The card is important because it lets you use the communication things on your phone, like calling and messages. Many people buy them. So, is silicon safe for the environment? Apparently, it is even less harmful to humans then plastic. So silicon is safer then plastic, which is good. Or as long as you recycle it properly. Giesecke & Devrient are the names of people who created the SIM cards. There are many types of SIM cards too. Full, mini, micro, nano, and embedded.
REFLECTION – Define. Discover. Deliver. Debrief.
What we had to do for our project is we had to pick something, like an object, and learn about it. Before that, we first got into a group of 3 of our choice, and started brainstorming some ideas. For my group, we chose the SIM Card. Our question was ‘How Does a phone’s SIM Card connect to chemistry and the world?’ We had to research about it, and put it into a final ‘product’, as we did a video. Then write a reflection.
Since we couldn’t just search up an answer for ‘How Does a phone’s SIM Card connect to chemistry and the world?’, we had to make smaller questions, and get answers for those. Here is a list of all the smaller questions we made.
What elements are used to make the sim card of a smartphone?
What kind of compound is it?
What affects do simcard have on water?
What can simcards do?
How many chemicals does a simcard contain
How many different types are there?
Are their materials in the simcard that can harm our environment?
Is there a better alternative material?
Who made the simcard?
<– What you see here is our list of questions, and our research we did for them.
For our final product, we made the notes more organized. We split up the questions so we could each focus on some, then added what we found on the sheet. At first we weren’t sure what to make as the final product, but I wanted to make a video, so I asked my group and they agreed. It was a bit of a risk making a video, because they do take time to make. I only know how to edit on iMovie, because its the only editor I ever used. I volunteered to edit the whole video, because though I wasn’t the #1 in the world for editing, I wasn’t bad. We spent a couple days getting good information down, so I had little time to edit. I still tried my best with the time I had, and the final result wasn’t bad 🙂 Because to make the video, you needed all the information.
Though if I had more time, it could probably be a bit better. One of the things we could’ve improve is maybe getting our research done faster. Another thing I forgot to mention is that for the video, we tried putting in our voices to narrate it, but when I tried to edit, the background noise was really loud. So I just didn’t add it in. Overall, it was nice working in a group project again, so we can all learn from each other, and help one another.
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