Statistics - Week 4

I thought our assignments this week were really interesting. My group enjoyed doing the survey assignment. We created a survey relating people's ages, income, and occupations to their views on the Budget Repair Bill. We had fun putting all we'd learned about statistics to work, and applying it to a real world problem.

I also really enjoyed the videos on Bill Tancer. His methods were very interesting to me. I never gave much thought to anyone researching my search methods just for fun or to study trends. Usually if I think about someone "watching" what I'm doing online I think of stalkers, not researchers! Bill Tancer was fascinating to listen to.

Statistics - Week 3

Well, it's been another interesting week. Z-scores are very confusing to me, but the leader of our group is doing his best to walk us through it!

The survey was interesting to create. With everything going on in our state government right now, we decided to do a survey on people's opinions about "the bill". We all learned that SurveyMonkey is a very user-friendly tool to use. Most of us had taken surveys created with SurveyMonkey before, but had never created our own. It was a great learning experience, and now that I see how easy it is, I think I will definitely use that tool again in the future.