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Unit 7 - Data Collection and Interpretation

This document outlines a unit on Probability and Statistics, focusing on data collection and interpretation. It includes tasks for evaluating misleading graphs, understanding primary vs secondary data, and determining the most appropriate average for various scenarios. Additionally, it provides a structured approach for students to conduct their own research projects, including selecting questions, collecting data, and analyzing results.

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Unit 7 - Data Collection and Interpretation

This document outlines a unit on Probability and Statistics, focusing on data collection and interpretation. It includes tasks for evaluating misleading graphs, understanding primary vs secondary data, and determining the most appropriate average for various scenarios. Additionally, it provides a structured approach for students to conduct their own research projects, including selecting questions, collecting data, and analyzing results.

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UNIT 7 – Probability and Statistics


Topic: Data Collection and Interpretation
Learning Objective: List of learning objectives

Task on Entry

This is a graph released by the government in 2013.

Is this graph misleading?


Write your thoughts below.

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This horizontal bar chart shows the number


of supporters on Facebook for the candidates
in the 2008 US presidential election.

Is this bar chart misleading?


Write your thoughts below.

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Be Prepared – Show Respect – Challenge Yourself


Skill: Primary vs Secondary Data

What is primary data? What is secondary data?

Examples of primary data Examples of secondary data

Advantages of primary data Advantages of secondary data

Disadvantages of primary data Disadvantages of secondary data

Test Your Understanding: Are the following Primary or Secondary data?

You find the average median


You ask everyone in your class for
household income from the
their shoe size.
National Census.
You find a list of the largest You want to know how many
countries by population on rooms the school has, so you go
Wikipedia around and count them all.
You ask your friend for the 3 You make a questionnaire
most well-known football players asking your friends what their
in the world favourite subject is.

Be prepared – Show Respect – Challenge Yourself


Review: Most appropriate average

We have learnt three types of average: mean, mode and median.


For the following scenarios, which average is the most useful? And why?

Scenario Average Why?

Someone want to know what the


most popular video game out now is

A class takes a Maths test, but the


range in scores is very large. What
average best represents the whole
class?

Felicity has been paying her


electricity bills in her new apartment
for a year now, she wants to know
her average monthly electricity bill.

Review: Outliers

A new coach has been Here are all the results:


working with the Long
Jump team this month,  Augustus: +0.15m
and the athletes'  Tom: +0.11m
performance has  June: +0.06m
changed.  Carol: +0.06m
 Bob: + 0.12m
Augustus can now jump 0.15m further, June and  Sam: -0.56m (Oh no! Sam got worse.)
Carol can jump 0.06m further.

Plot the results on the number line:

Find the average of their changed performance: Does this mean the coach is useless? Why?

Be prepared – Show Respect – Challenge Yourself


Task: Data Collection and Interpretation

For the next couple of lessons, you are researchers.

You will have to:

 Select a research question. It must be a question you have to answer.


Example:
 Who spends more time doing homework? Boys or girls?
 Which is the most popular method of transport to school?
 What do students do in their free time?

 Figure out what question you are going to ask.


Example:
 How long does it take you to get to school in minutes?
 If you are comparing boys and girls, remember to record their gender too!
 If you are interested in whether students like Maths, you can use a Likert Scale. E.g. “Do
you like Maths?” Strongly disagree – disagree – neutral – agree – strongly agree

 Decide on your sample (i.e. who you are going to ask).


 Are you going to ask everyone? (i.e. a census)
 Are you going to ask a smaller group? (i.e. a sample) Why a sample?

 Collect the data in an appropriate table.


Example:
 A tally-frequency chart or a grouped tally frequency chart
 A stem-and-leaf diagram or a back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram

 Visualise the data in an appropriate diagram/chart.


Example:
 Pie chart
 Bar chart or Dot plot
 Frequency polygon (for grouped data)
 Scatter graph

 Calculate the appropriate average (and spread if needed).


 Are there any outliers? Why? What did you do about them?

 Answer your research question.

Be prepared – Show Respect – Challenge Yourself

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