INSTRUCTIONS Article Assignment Overview: Statistics is a broad mathematical discipline dealing with techniques for collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and presenting numerical data. Statistics appear everywhere in our society. This project is intended to heighten your awareness of the use of statistics in the media, improve your critical thinking skills, and expose you to regular reading of newspapers/journals. For this assignment, you will write a brief report analyzing a news article that has some statistical content. Goals for this assignment are "to connect ideas from this course to information and issues you will encounter in relation to your personal life or your role as a citizen to critically analyze statistical content in news articles Details: Find a news article that deals with the results of a study and has some statistical content related to what we have discussed in the course. In particular, you should look for a news article that involves the framework of variable/population/parameter/sample/statistic where the parameter/statistic of interest is a mean or a proportion. The news article you use should come from an established source aimed at a broad audience such as a newspaper or magazine. You can use an online source but should take care in evaluating the rigor of a source that is not widely known. Your report should focus on explaining the nature and results of the study in terms of the concepts and language we have been developing in this course. Here are some specific questions you might address: (The analysis should be written in complete sentences (not fragments), not just answering the bullets) What broad question is being addressed by the study? a) Does that data constitute a population or a sample? If a sample has been taken, identify both the population and the sample; otherwise; identify the population. What is the problem or question? EXPLAIN b) What type of data (quantitative or qualitative) has been collected? c) What is the source of the data? What was the method of sampling? EXPLAIN d) If a sample has been observed, is it likely to be representative of the population? EXPLAIN e) If a sample has been observed, does the article present an explicit (or implied) inference about the population of interest? State the inference. f) Include any descriptive statistics/graphs that were presented to back up the inferences that were made. •Include a full reference to your news article. MLA REFERENCING STYLE Word Limit 700-800 words Submit AI FREE WORK

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