Tutorial Week 2 Summary Measures for Numerical Variables Introduction In this week’s tutorial‚ we look at summarising a single numerical variable. There are five (5) aspects that need to be investigated: average‚ spread‚ location‚ shape and outliers. You will complete some of the work by hand and the rest using Microsoft Excel. Specifically the aims of this tutorial are to: Produce frequency distributions and histograms for numerical data Calculate by pen-and-paper some of the standard summary
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Option 1 - Jackson County Judges Jackson County judges try thousands of cases per year. In an overwhelming majority of the cases disposed‚ the verdict stands as rendered. However‚ some cases are appealed‚ and of those appealed‚ some of the cases are reversed. Jackie Chan of The Star Tribune conducted a study of cases handled by Jackson County judges over a three-year period. In the Excel file‚ Judges‚ are the results for the 182‚908 cases handled (disposed) by 40 judges in Common Pleas Court‚ Domestic
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Background Description One of the best ways to grasp the significance of the change of life expectancy is to understand its history. As it was stated above‚ the life expectancy of people around the world has become longer from the past with human evolution. According to Rorabaugh‚ Critchlow‚ and Baker‚ life expectancy was only about 35 years in 1600s in England because about two-thirds of children died before four years old. The life expectancy of Colonial America was also about 25 years in
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connect oneself to another. Twitter‚ Facebook‚ Vine‚ and other now big social networking sites have become one of the most important ways to connect and to use those connections to create change or to join others who are involved in social change. Gladwell introduces the idea in Small Change that “The world‚ we are told‚ is in the midst of a revolution” (232). Communication is being altered daily‚ and over the years has changed from social activism sparked only by person-to-person contact‚ to telephone
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successful. Malcolm Gladwell explains that idea throughout his book Outliers. Gladwell’s chapters contain endless amounts of evidence that support his claims exceptionally well. But‚ Michiko Kakutani‚ a critic for New York Times‚ exposes Gladwell’s evidence as unreliable and unconvincing‚ and upon further research‚ Gladwell’s faults grew deeper. Even though Gladwell provides an extensive amount of evidence‚ that evidence is one-sided and relies on suggestion. Each chapter of Outliers provides an enormous
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Style‚ in literature is crucial for individualizing one author’s work from another. In Outliers‚ Gladwell implements stylistic elements of denouement‚ parallelism‚ calls to action‚ and colloquialism to enhance his writing piece. Through these writing styles‚ Gladwell is able to maintain the attention of the reader‚ create an informal mood with the reader‚ connect ideas‚ and add emphasis. Gladwell is able to add emphasis in his writing through the application of parallelism in his writing. Parallelism
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could improve upon so much to get a better chance to become more successful in life. In Outliers‚ Malcolm Gladwell argues that a child’s performance level for anything has to do with their culture. He says that people of Asian descent will focus more and try harder when they do not understand something. He also talks about how constantly practicing can make you master a skill. If teens can use ideas that Gladwell talks about they can become more successful. One idea is teens can work on their social
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is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities” (Gladwell 155). Gladwell is implying that success does not arbitrarily come to a person. It takes many foreseeable factors and circumstances. The claim that‚ “if you work hard enough and assert yourself‚ and use your mind and imagination‚ you can shape the world to your desires” (Gladwell 151) is valid to a certain extent. However‚ hard work and the use of one’s mind and imagination alone are
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Blink: the power of thinking without thinking Malcolm Gladwell When I saw the title‚ Blink: the power of thinking without thinking‚ I have decided in a blink of an eye that I have to read the book. And it was the best thing to do. The book opens with a very interesting case study: an unusual piece of art (korus) has been discovered and brought to a museum for selling. There‚ the museum’s group of art experts‚ after having studied and analyzed thoroughly the statue‚ elicits it is an
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blink of an eye as in month of rational analysis” ~Malcolm Gladwell‚ Blink (9). Every day we are faced with decisions. The quality of them often determines the pattern of our lives. There’s the question: “How to make the best decision?” Although the majority of people are used to saying that decisions should be based on the long-term gathering of information‚ comparing moral and ethics rules and human prejudices and bias‚ Malcolm Gladwell offers another point of view in his best-seller‚ in 2005‚
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