How to display data badly by howard wainer

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Case Study: Each student is expected to post at least twice. For your original post, please select one topic to work on. Reply to at least one class member's post. Replies should be meaningful. Avoid responses such as "Great job", "I agree with you", etc., that do not add content.

Descriptive Statistics: In six sentences or more, explain how you would use the descriptive statistical procedure(s) at work or in your personal life.

Misuse of Statistics: As we will see in the next 12 weeks, statistics when used correctly can be a very powerful tool in managerial decision making.

Statistical techniques are used extensively by marketing, accounting, quality control, consumers, professional sports people, hospital administrators, educators, politicians, physicians, etc...

As such a strong tool, statistics is often misused. Everyone has heard the joke (?) about the statistician who drowned in a river with an average depth of 3 feet or the person who boarded a plane with a bomb because "the odds of two bombs on the same plane are lower than one in one millionth".

Question 1: Can you find examples in the popular press of misuse of statistics?

Question 2: How to Display Data Badly : Read the article "How to Display Data Badly" by Howard Wainer. It is attached here: How to Display Data Badly and also posted under the Content tab (after you choose the Content tab, choose Course Content and Session 1 from the list on the left). For a summary, Wainer Explained.

Next read, Chart Junk Considered Useful after All, by Robert Kosara,

In your own words, describe "Chart Junk".

When should Chart Junk be avoided. When is it useful?

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