TOKTW 2016
on Month: June 2017
on Hubbard2017DAReflections
on - I think that the first article affects me because there are lots of fake accounts out there no matter what form of social media, like Instagram or twitter. Some people make them about a celebrity and pretend to be them or it’s just a fan account and people think its the real person but it’s not. I’ve seen people believe that fan accounts are real celebrity accounts because they have similar user names. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/calgary/fake-facebook-accounts-calgary-alberta-politics-1.4128312
- Personally, I don’t get why people make these posts because if the person they took the picture from sees it, they will tel everyone that they aren’t missing. I don’t think that it affects me that much as I don’t think that I’ve ever seen one of these posts. I can see how people retweet and repost them because they don’t know that it isn’t actually the persons daughter, son, sister, brother, what ever it may be and they are just trying to help the person find them. http://globalnews.ca/news/3470831/manchester-arena-2-rules-to-sort-truth-from-fiction-in-an-attacks-confusing-aftermath/?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=EditorsPick&utm_campaign=2015
Hubbard2017DataAnalysisThoughts
on Explain what role you think statistics have in our society:
Statistics show us so many things whether it be how many people around the world have green eyes or the weather forecast. they are also used for insurance, political campaigns, in the stock market and so many other things.
Explain anything new that you have learned about the importance of statistics in our society:
After reading the article, I learned that if a researcher wants to know if one method of treating a disease is more affective than another, it is important that they know the statistics to show the percentage of the time each method worked on groups of patients. Also, there is a part that talks about headlines of “Released Prisoner Doesn’t Commit Murder” and based on what we see reported, our mental image of percent of prisoners that actually murder someone after being released is likely to be much greater than what happens in reality. Statistics give us a way to look at the big picture and they are a way to get a more accurate way of understanding than what we get from individual observations.
Describe the different types of problems with statistics
- statistics can be fabricated.
- some other problems arise because of the way statistics are gathered, like bad sampling and biases introduced into polls and surveys.
- Some statistics are true but misleading
- the problem with ranking statistics are that they are not always clear about what the categories are that are being ranked.
- Percentages: news sources typically try to make the number sound as dramatic as they can.
Lost in the Woods
on For my blackout poetry I used a page from the book Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children.