Vocabulary
What it means: The study of collecting and analyzing numbers (data).
Statistics
How tall are the students in my school?
Statistical Questions
What it means: A collection of facts, numbers, or answers.
Data
Convert this non-statistical question "What is your shoe size?
Example: What is the shoe size of all students in Greenberg Elementary School?
What it means: A question that expects different answers (variability)
Statistical Question
Create Your Own Statistical Question.
Example: How many siblings do students in our school have?
What it means: A question with only one fixed answer (no variability).
Non- Statistical Question
Why is this "What is your birth month?" a Non-Statistical question?
Fixed answer, no numerical variability
What it means: he differences in data—when answers are not all the same.
Variability
What is your favorite subject in school?
Non-Statistical Questions