Statistics+Assignment

What Do You Know About the Students in Your School and their needs? 

1. Your company has created a new drug that may cure arthritis. How would you conduct a test to confirm the drug's effectiveness? 
 * Real Life Scenarios: **

2. The latest sales data have just come in, and your boss wants you to prepare a report for management on places where the company could improve its business. What should you look for? What should you not look for?  3. You and a friend are at a baseball game, and out of the blue he offers you a bet that neither team will hit a home run in that game. Should you take the bet?  4. You want to conduct a poll on whether your school should use its funding to build a new athletic complex or a new library. How many people do you have to poll? How do you ensure that your poll is free of bias? How do you interpret your results?  5. A widget maker in your factory that normally breaks 4 widgets for every 100 it produces has recently started breaking 5 widgets for every 100. When is it time to buy a new widget maker? (And just what is a widget, anyway?) 

These are some of the many real-world examples that require the use of statistics in order to make decisions and predict the needs of the future.  

PART ONE: //GATHERING DATA // What questions would you like to ask fellow students in order to gain a better understanding of the community that you are apart of every week? What questions could you ask about how their day to day life in Beth Rivkah can be enhanced? __**TASK ONE **__ __:__ In order to collect this information one first needs to decide on the data that needs to be collected and then how to obtain that data. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has a sample of a survey that they have asked in schools to complete in order to gain knowledge specifically about students in schools. It is called Censusinschools.

Click on this link to browse the survey that was taken in 2008. Click on Questionnares.

[|Censusatschool] Based on this survey, in groups of 3, brainstorm 10 – 15 questions that you would like to ask other students in the school.

__**TASK TWO: **__ <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);">When you have decided which questions you would like to ask, you then have to put the questions into survey form. In order to do that you are going to use an internet site called <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,255);">**<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">google docs ** <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);">. Click on the site below and watch the video about google docs. It actually works like a wiki but has other added features such as survey templates and other forms. <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,255);"> [|Google Docs] <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,0);">When you have watched the video then sign in.

Go to 'New', top left hand corner and then scroll down to 'FORM'. Now you are ready to start the survey. You can choose the background by clicking on 'Theme'. Enter you questions. Here is a sample: <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,255);">

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ANOTHER SURVEY SITE You may like to try this site to prepare a survey. [|surveymonkey]

<span style="font-size: 21pt; color: rgb(0,0,255);">PART TWO: //OR////GANISATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE DATA// <span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0,0,255);">

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