The What? The Dubs...

       
                                         

            When you are looking at data you should always look at their context. To know the context, you should think of The Who, The What, The When, The Where, The Why, and sometimes How. When you are thinking of the "who", think if you were to answer a survey you are a respondent; if you are a person in an experiment you are a participant; if you are an animal, ppllants or some object, you are an experiment. For the "what", you are looking at two kind of variables which are categorical and quantitaive. Categorical variables are variables that have characterisctics and don't have numbers. Quantitative variables includes numbers, units, and you have to ask can it be measured. For quantitative data, there are two categories which are discrete and continuous. Discrete can be counted like the number of students in a classroom and continuous can be measure like the temperature, height, or weight.

Stats...

                 I think that statistic will be helpful to me because this can help me analyze data and graph more. I think this class will strengthen my weakness in possibilities, analyzing data, have an understanding of what I am reading and much more. For the last couple of days, we have been examining data and this help me understand to what statistic is because I know that this is a math related class and coming into the class not knowing what to expect can be overwhelming. I hope to extend my knowledge about reading charts, data, and comprehending the "why", meaning focus on why this happen and from that, it can help me.

                 I rather volunteer to go and answer questions rather than people/ teachers call on me. I feel uncomfortable when I am put on the spot. I honestly don't know what to expect from this class, but I hope it is fun and enjoyable. I work best on notes and more towards filling in the blank. I can't listen and write at the same time because it is hard to keep up when teachers explain and tell us to write what is on the board. Overall, I hope to have a fun education with full of excitement in this class.

 

 

 

Chance of Surviving

           Over the last two days, I have completed a survival activity. The activity consists of what we would have to do if a small plane was crash and both of the pilots and co-pilots were killed. Also it is mid-January in Northern Canada. I am dressed in normal winter school clothes and our task is to list the items in order of important for our survival. 

           My group chance of survival is 2.545 and the lower the number, the more chance you have of surviving. The number is the average of our absolute value difference. I think that my group have a good chance of surviving compare to most of the data that we have collected from our classmates. I average the class data including ours, our mean for surviving is 3.073.

           I would NOT have gotten a good chance of surviving as an individual because compare to the class average, I have a 4.54. It is a high number compare to the class average. The lowest in the class is 1.45 and they have a high chance of surviving. We record our difference on the board under the male and female list. Based on statistics in our classroom, the female dominate by 0.05 points.