Vocabulary
Q or Q
Sampling
Potpourri
Mr. Mays
100
This is a subset of a population.
What is a Sample?
100
The hair color of each student in the room.
What is Qualitative?
100
Another name for Simple Random Sampling.
What is SRS?
100
This type of sample is one that is NOT representative of the population.
What is a Biased Sample?
100
This is the store where Mr. Mays camped out to get his Xbox 360 on launch day.
What is Target?
200
This is a numerical description of a population.
What is a Parameter?
200
The drive time for each student to get from their home to the high school.
What is Quantitative?
200
Law enforcement officials stop and check the driver of every third vehicle for blood alcohol content.
What is Systematic Sampling?
200
This is a count or measure of an entire population.
What is a Census?
200
This is the title of the pie chart on Mr. Mays' Edline page.
What is The Pie Chart of Procrastination?
300
When you draw a conclusion from descriptive statistics you get this kind of statistic.
What is an Inferential Statistic?
300
The top five movies at the box office in the month of July.
What is Qualitative or Categorical?
300
A student asked 18 friends to participate in a psychology experiment. This is an example of this kind of sampling technique.
What is Convenience Sampling?
300
A study of the ages of the 535 members of the U.S. Congress is this.
What is an Observational Study?
300
This is the picture on the iphone used on the Qualitative vs Quantitative worksheet.
What is Mr. Mays holding a lightsaber?
400
This "hands on" statistical study deliberately applies a treatment to the subjects.
What is an Experiment?
400
The ages of a sample of 350 employees of a software company.
What is Quantitative?
400
Twenty-five students are randomly selected from each grade level at a high school and surveyed about their study habits.
What is Stratified Sampling?
400
This process is essential to providing a representation of the population.
What is Randomization?
400
Mr. Mays gives this character a new quote nearly every day.
Who is Darth Vader?
500
This is a harmless, unmedicated treatment.
What is a placebo?
500
The Social Security numbers of the employees at an accounting firm.
What is Qualitative?
500
This sampling technique uses all the members of one or more groups.
What is Cluster Sampling?
500
In this experiment, neither the subject nor the experimenter knows if the subject is receiving a treatment or a placebo.
What is a Double-Blind Experiment?
500
This is Mr. Mays' Xbox Live gamertag.
What is Mayster Chief?
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