- 3 key things I learned in English 9 are: How to come up with a big open-ended question that were broad but specific at the same time, I learned how to film a stop motion video, andI learned how to actually understand Shakespearean writing.
- My fondest memory of English 9 is sitting beside Evan.
- One thing I can improve on for English 10 next year is staying on top of all my work and making sure I understand everything before moving onto another unit.
Month: June 2017
HUBBARD2017DAREFLECTIONS
Article 1:
There were many adults who fell for this hoax and I am obviously more naive and should really be paying attention to what I do online. I need to be more aware of who they are and if I have met them face to face because of the lack of knowledge I have. I didn’t know people in politics would ever do this. The age group I am currently in has always been pressured around popularity. We always try to make as many “friends” as we can which can possibly lead us to meeting and befriending someone like James Galan. We need to be more mindful of who we accept into our social lives because they might not be who we think they are. There are many people who are like James Galan, people who use fake profile pictures, and catfish others.
Article 2:
There are people who are trying to find their loved ones and trying to find their family while others keep posting fake things for absolutely no reason. People who have the need to seek attention and achieve a certain amount of retweets need to realize that what they are doing is wrong. What they’re doing is misleading people and it needs to stop. This article doesn’t have connections with my life because I have not experienced what these people have, but it affects me because it helps me realize that many things online can easily be fake and I need to be aware of that.
Hubbard2017DataAnalysisThoughts
1. I think statistics are used for many different thing in our society, such as: medical research, weather forecasts, quality testing, predicting disease, genetics, and political campaigns. Statistics help people come to a conclusion on wether something is accurate or not.
After reading the article: http://www.truthpizza.org/logic/stats.htm
2. Something new I have learned about the importance of statistics in our society is that statistics give make us look at the picture as a whole and gives us a much more precise and accurate way of understanding what is going on in the world around us and is easier to look at statistics then from individual observations. I also learned that tons of information out there can be extremely misleading. So I have learned to be cautious and judge the credibility of the statistics before I can fully trust that it is accurate.
3. Describing different types of problems with statistics.
Faulty statistics- “86% of statistics are made up on the spot, you know – the remaining 24% are mathematically flawed.- from an internet message board.” Statistics can be false, they should use specific numbers and have a quality of authority about them.
Bad Sampling- Bad sampling can be incorrect because statistics based on a small group of poeple is more based on luck, probability and response bias is involved.
Unfair Poll Questions- Statistics that have some type of voting component can be unfair because people can word questions differently and purposefully lean towards the answer they want. People can influence others very easily and make others think how they want them too.
Statistics that are true but misleading- Even when statistics are supposedly accurate, some facts can be truly misleading. When someone chooses the starting and ending points for data used is an efficient way to manipulate statistics.
Ranking Statistics- Ranking statistics are ” based on comparisons with other quantities rather than specifying specific amounts, there are special problems we need to be aware of.” Ranking statistics are also not clear what the categories are that are being ranked.
Qualifiers on statistics- Qualifiers make things seem much more impressive and interesting than they actually are.
Percentages- When dealing with facts on a bigger scale, look at numbers as percentages or in proportion to other quantities. If the stats were based on a small amount, percentages would show more of an impact and large amounts. But should use the actual number to show its quantity.