Thoughts on Data Analysis 2017

I think that statistics have a place in society, and that they can be useful and helpful in society, but that they are not necessary. We could all live without surveys, however useful they can occasionally be. I personally find it annoying when i get a random call asking to do a survey, but I do understand their purpose. After reading the article, I thought a lot about how we shouldn`t be fooled by false statistics. Lots of people also end up making biased opinions,…

11.1 Factors Influencing Data Collection

When I first read the article, I thought about how so many people can be misguided and give false information out to people, without even realizing it. I thought about how unfair it is that in so many surveys, they use questions to confuse you into giving the answer that they want to hear, or into spending more money. Bellow is a picture of a survey from 2004 in Nova Scotia on whether there should be shopping on Sundays or not. This article was very…