Monday, February 4, 2008

Leaving Cert Statistics

There are lies, damned lies and statistics - attributed to Mark Twain or Disraeli depending on how you google it.
Statistics is the art of interpreting data - summarising complex data in numbers (by calculating a mean or a standard deviation) or presenting it graphically in graphs.
If you understand statistics, you'll know when someone is using their statistical knowledge to warp and twist the truth for their own advantage ... if you master statistics, you'll be able to warp and twist the truth to your own advantage.

We'll revise Statistics in class on Feb 5th.
Homework will be LC 2006 Paper 2 Q 7
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