By Kirk Anderson and Mary Richardson, Grand Valley State University On September 17, 2014, testimony was given at a House Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Committee hearing. Participants included a member of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas), and the chief of staff for the Phoenix VA Health Care System, Dr. Darren Deering. Rep. Huelskamp took issue with … [Read more...] about How to Lie (to Congress) with Statistics
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Lesson Plan: First Day Statistics Activity—Grouping Qualitative Data
By R.B. Campbell (Grades 6-8, 9-12+) This activity, published in April of 2014, provides a foundation for distinguishing between qualitative (categorical) and quantitative data and how they can be summarized and analyzed (a topic encountered early in a statistics course). This lesson illustrates how categorical data can be grouped to make the data comprehensible. It also … [Read more...] about Lesson Plan: First Day Statistics Activity—Grouping Qualitative Data