TOK: Discuss the ways in which statistics can be used or misused to assist and mislead us, and how we can determine whether to accept the statistical evidence present to us.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:24:18
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1446 words)
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1446 words)
For many years now, people have been using statistics to present data to the masses who then took these numbers for granted and believed it without any further inquiry. But what are such statistics really? Professor John Deere says "Statistics is a way to get useful information from raw data" I here must emphasize on the word "useful" for different things are useful to different people,; it is just like me saying, "it is hot …
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…out to be much more clear. But still there are many biases, but some biases you will never be able to eliminate. .
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