7.01 Statistical questions
State whether each of the following questions are statistical questions:
How tall are the science teachers in your school?
Which city is the capital of France?
What is your favorite movie?
How far away is the moon from the Earth, right now?
Which capital city has the coldest average temperature?
How old is your mom?
How much do puppies weigh?
Have you ever visited Paris, France?
How old are Olympic gold medal winners when they win their medal?
What is the wage of people in California?
What superpower would you want to have?
Do you prefer pasta or pizza?
How far do students have to travel to get from their home to school each day?
How far do you have to travel from home to school each day?
How many calories do you burn on a school day?
How many calories did you burn yesterday?
Who was the oldest US president on the day he was elected?
How old are US presidents on the day they are elected?
Consider the question: Is your mom taller than your dad?
Is this a statistical question? Explain your answer.
Consider the question: Which US TV show is the most popular in Europe?
Is this question is statistical?
Which measure of average would be best to use to answer this question: mean, mode or median?
The motor authority wants to design a new advertising campaign targeting speeding among young drivers. To help make an effective ad, they want to ask a sample of young drivers to answer some questions in a survey.
State whether the following questions are biased or fair:
Do you think there is such thing as 'safe speeding'?
How old are you?
Do you pay attention to speed signs?
What is a safe speed?
A math class wants to answer the following question: Are the 12-year olds in the class taller than the 11-year olds in the class?
Is this a statistical question?
Which of the following attributes are needed to answer the question?
- Height
- Age
- Weight
- Gender
Which of the following units could be used to measure someone's height?
- Decibels
- Degrees
- Meters
- Centimeters
What statistical attribute would need to be considered if you were trying to investigate how many pets your classmates own?
What statistical attribute would need to be considered if you were trying to investigate how many hours of homework your teachers set each week?
Consider the question: Which US state has the longest life expectancy?
Is this a statistical question?
What attributes would you need to measure to answer the question?
A person's age is an example of which type of data: discrete or continuous?
Determine whether the following statistical attributes are being investigated in the given graph:
Mass of paper produced each month.
Sheets of paper produced each month.
Length of paper produced each month.
What statistical attributes are being represented in the given graph?
Determine whether the following statistical attributes are represented by the given graph:
Number of children who travel to school and their mode of transport
How many people prefer each mode of transport
Number of teachers who travel to school and their mode of transport
What statistical attributes are represented by the graph?
What statistical attributes are represented by the graph?
Consider the following graph:
What units could be used for time?
What units could be used for temperature?