Nick Miller's AP Statistics Applications by Nick Miller

Survey 1/7/15

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:03:27 UTC

Americans were surveyed and asked if they approved or disapproved of President Obama. This survey was shared with us by Mrs. Lukridge in government class as one of our current events. The survey that was shared with us was done by Gallup and it found that President Obama's approval rating was 46%. The survey was done via telephone interview.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Graph 11/28/14

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:03:45 UTC

After all of the news about the Ebola outbreak, I wanted to know how many people had actually died. I found a bar graph on forbes.com that showed the Ebola deaths that had occurred in three West African countries over a 6 month time period.

Statistic 11/25/14

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:04:15 UTC

While everyone was chatting at Thanksgiving dinner, the discussion was about the football game that was on TV. My brother, who often has a lot of useless information and knows a ton about animals, yelled out that it takes the NFL about 3,000 cows per year to provide enough leather for the footballs they use.

Experiment

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:04:34 UTC

In Psychology, we learned about one of the most well-known experiments in the history of Psychology. This experiment is called the Stanford Prison experiment. Students at Stanford were either assigned to be a prisoner or a guard. They were then kept in made prisons on campus and the guards were too enforce as if it were a real prison. The experiment was significant because the students that were guards became very violent when they were given the authoritative position.

Average

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:04:48 UTC

My basketball coach uses an average or mean value in many different circumstances when we are scouting for another team. He gives us the average points per game for every player on the team and the average points per game for the whole team. These are found by adding up the totals for each game and then dividing by the number of games total.

Probabilit

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:05:07 UTC

On ESPN, the analysts were giving the probabilities of each team winning the 4 team playoff in college football this year. Oregon was given a 39.3% chance. Alabama was given a 39.7% chance. Ohio State was also given an 11.3% chance and Florida State a 9.7% chance.

Sample 1/4/14

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:05:40 UTC

I heard on the radio this morning of Elvis Duran and his recent weight loss surgery. This surgery seemed unhealthy to me, so I researched a little. This experiment showed that having the weight loss surgery was healthy for the patients. The sample or people used in this experiment were willing volunteers whom were classified as obese.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/weight-loss-surgery-linked-better-survival

Correlation

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:06:06 UTC

My brother posted this cartoon on his Facebook page. It is a very common misconception for students to assume that correlation implies causation when it does not. Correlation is when two random variables are strongly linked to each other.

Logarithmic Transformations 12/01/14

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:07:17 UTC

In chemistry class, we used a logarithmic transformation of a graph to linearize a graph for first order reaction graphs. A logarithmic transformation helps create a linear model that can be analyzed more easily with a r value.

Treatment 1/3/14

ccfalcons32 — 2015-01-08 23:10:03 UTC

A treatment in an experiment is the independent variable or condition that a subject is being placed under. Right now there is 4 people in my house that have been sick. As a family, we decided to each try a different type of medicine that would work the best to get rid of the cold and then which ever one worked the best, we would all use. Each type of medicine that was used would be the different treatments