1. I think that in our society, we are unable to realize that two questions could mean the exact same meaning while being worded differently. We look at names with more power as a more reliable source when there could always be a bias without us knowing. I think that statistics in our society today is to for people to prove their thoughts and ideas to others. It could be used for advertising for some new product or even for people’s mathematical capability. Statistics are able to show how people are able to be convinced to do something, just because of majority. They are able to be used to persuade people into doing things without them thinking that it’s a bad thing.  They are also used in scientific ways to test out new medications and different experiments.
2.  Statistics can be used to show many different things in our society. They are used for both advertising, competition and scientific matters. The questions you could answer in a poll all depend on how the author writes the questions. It’s able to change your thoughts from positive to negative and vice versa. I also learned that many people don’t understand statistics to a full extent. Some think that the percentage that they see is from a larger group of people when in reality, it’s only from 10-100 people who were surveyed.
3. Lots of people aren’t able to tell that some statistics are to try to make you change your thoughts on something. There are also many inaccurate statistics that are mathematically incorrect and aren’t true. Like in the last question, some people sometimes think that the percentage that they see is from everyone, when it’s only from a smaller group of people that can make one choice seem to have more than the other. I think that if you don’t have enough people in a poll or survey, the statistics won’t be as accurate as they could be if you were to use more people. It’s like taking a survey to see if people prefer chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream. You could ask two people, if they both answer vanilla and your publish your statistics saying that 100% of people like vanilla ice cream better than chocolate, it’s inaccurate.

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I would be interesting in seeing the results of how many people like/dislike/have no opinion of an anime and manga called Sword Art Online (Manga: Sword Art Online: Aincrad). I have heard lots of people have different opinions on it, so it’ll be cool to see what everyone thinks and how it averages out. I would want to survey the people who has already seen the anime or read the manga. I think that if I were to survey the people on the story line, there may be more of a positive outcome. But if I were to survey people on their opinions on the characters, the results would probably be more negative in the end. People may be biased to their friends/friend groups that they’re in. If someone who is the ‘head of the group’ claims that they didn’t like it, there is a big chance that everyone else in that group will think the same thing. I think that if I were to ask everyone at different times and locations where they are not with their main friends/ friend groups, they will probably say their actual opinions.