by Madison Rakow https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig en-us 2014-12-12 16:14:07 UTC 2015-01-09 12:23:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Average. rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45590991 My mom calculated my average points, rebounds, and blocks per game

so that we could send those statistics to a college coach.

]]> 2015-01-09 04:24:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45590991 Observational study rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45591587 There was a study done to test if chocolate increased the survival rates

after a heart attack. The scientists followed 1,169 nondiabetic men and

women who had been hospitalized for a first heart attack. Each filled

out a standardized health questionnaire that included a question

about chocolate consumption over the past 12 months. Then the

patients had a health examination three months after their discharge

from the hospital, and researchers followed them for the next eight

years.

]]> 2015-01-09 04:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45591587 Nonresponse rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611227 I was sitting at home when the telephone rang. I didn't recognize the number but I answered it anyway. When I picked up the phone, I was immediately asked to answer a few questions about whatever they were trying to endorse. Knowing where this sales call was going, I hung up the phone without answering any of their questions. This made me think of when we would talk about nonresponse.

]]> 2015-01-09 11:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611227 Probability rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611468 While being interviewed by a news reporter, our head basketball coach was asked about our upcoming season. He asked what the probability of having an undefeated season was and if he thought we would have one. Coach replied, saying that our chances of having an undefeated season were slim to none. He knew we were going to lose a few games, and he was okay with that.

]]> 2015-01-09 11:15:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611468 Convenience sample rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611736 At basketball one day, our coach asked us for ideas on different ways

that she could teach her students this new topic she was going to

introduce. We were her convenience sample because she didn't have

to go out searching for people to question, we see her everyday in

basketball.

]]> 2015-01-09 11:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611736 Outlier rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611953 In physics, we did an experiment and then wrote our outcomes up on the board to compare them with the rest of the class. As we're reading through the data, everyone's answers seem to be pretty similar to each other until we get to group 5, whose answer was probably about 100 numbers away from the rest of the class. The teacher jokingly said that they were the odd balls in the class because this wasn't the first time that this has happened. He said that their answers are always the outliers of the group.  

]]> 2015-01-09 11:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45611953 Placebo rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45612216 On New years, The adults were having a few drinks and one of them drank a little too much and got really drunk. So the other adults thought it was a good idea to switch out the alcohol in his cup with the sparkling cider that the kids get. He never knew the difference.

]]> 2015-01-09 11:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45612216 Lurking variable rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45612396 My mom and I got into an argument about something and whenever she started yelling at me, she would stop after a little and calm down, like she was trying to hide something. My argument to her was that she didn't make any sense and that her reasons for yelling at me were completely irrational. I felt like there was something else that she was mad at me for but wasn't telling me about. There was the reason that she was yelling at me for which caused her to yell at me, but there was something else too that was influencing her anger and I just couldn't put my finger on it,

]]> 2015-01-09 11:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45612396 Bias rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45614252 My mom said that the police decided to test the average speed of cars, and that they tailed cars using police patrol cars and recorded their speeds. She said that most cars would slow down if they saw a police car following them. So this would be a biased result.

]]> 2015-01-09 11:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45614252 Experiment rakowmadison https://padlet.com/rakowmadison/8gaoco3zqjig/wish/45614554 One of my friends was telling me about how they conducted an experiment, which resulted in the collection of data, in Chemistry. They had to mix different things together to make a certain reaction to the chemicals. She said it was fun because sometimes the chemicals would foam up and bubble over the top of the beaker

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