When changes in variables are not related to one another.
What is No Correlation.
100
What kind of misleading data does this example show?
"48% said that they approve and 45% said that they disapprove of the grand jury's decision not to bring criminal charges against police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown"
What is Overgeneralizing
100
Meaningless numbers, Misinformation, Ignoring the Baseline, Meaningless boundaries, Unfair comparisons, Scaling, Overgeneralizing are examples of
What is misleading data
100
How do you select a whole column in excel?
downward arrow over the letter of the column
100
Represents the total number in the data set.
What is N
200
How do you find Z-Score
(X-Xbar)/SDx
200
What kind of misleading data does the following example show?
"a 1992 survey showed that US students ranked #9 in reading ability (behind Finland, France, Sweden, and others)
What is an unfair comparison
200
When data is supplied, but you don't know the highest possible numerical value
What is ignoring the baseline
200
How to make a copy of your spreadsheet on excel?
Ctrl, left click, drag
200
What stands for the mean of the data set
What is X-Bar
300
r=ΣZxZy/(n-1)
What is Pearson Correlation
300
What kind of misleading data does this example show?
"The team has won 6 out of the past 10 World Series"
What is Meaningless Boundaries
300
when a graph or chart implies causation between correlational data
What is misinformation
300
What is the shortcut to find average?
=average() or Fx, average, ok
300
Each score does not represent an amount, categorized in a certain way.
What is the Nominal Scale
400
True or False? Positive r value= Positive Correlation?
What is True
400
What kind of misleading data is shown in this example?
"3000 innocent civilians have been killed in drone strikes"
What is meaningless numbers
400
what type of misleading data occurs when the scale is not appropriate
What is scaling
400
Whats an easy way to organize your data into different categories?
What is a pivot chart?
400
Scores indicate ranking order
What is Ordinal Scale.
500
True or False? The further away from 1 the r value is, the more accurate the data is.
What is False.
500
What kind of misleading data does the following example show?
"Mexicans are taking our jobs"
What is Misinformation
500
showing overall results without indicating how different they look when separated into different categories is an example of