How not to lie with Stats

Select randomly one number

• 1

• 3

• 7

• 8

• 9

Next Sunday we have an important football match Dynamo Krakozia plays against Liverpool United. The bookies give the probability of Dynamo to win to be 40%. This means

• DK will win

• If they play 100 times DK will win 40 of them

• DK will loose the odds are aginst it

• It is just a match, footballl is random we do not know

Back to School. Mathematician gave an unexpected test with 10 multiple choice questions, 4 anwers each one. Last night you have been in a party until late and maths is not your subject, so you answer tottaly random. Your score will be

• 5, you pass lucky boy/girl

• 0, you are not lucky at all

• 2.5 this is not your day

• 10, Fortune favours the brave

Who from the next list was not a reputable Statistician?

• Sir David R Cox

• Prsanta Mahalanobis

• Ronald Fisher

• Durrel Huff

Which of the following events was imposible and not improbable?

• Greece to win Euro 2004

• Greece to win Eurobasket 2022

• Greece to win World Cup 2006

• Greece to win Eurovision 2002

What is the legal population of Greece as announced from the 2021 census?

• 10507413,5

• 10432481

• 10890104

• 11043098

The first census in Greece took place in

• 2001

• 1922

• 1828

• 1453

A well known journalist said: "it is good that some areas have a smaller than the mean number of COVID cases". Is this possible or not?

• It is possible

• It is not possible

• It depends the media

• Do not know/answer

Life expectancy in Greece for 2022 is estimated to be 82.64 years. This means that

• if we take the average age of all detahs this is 82.64

• A baby born in 2022 is expected to live on average 82.64 years

• Whatever is your age today you are expected to live until your 82.64

• Half of the population alive today will reach the age of 82.64

The at-risk-of-poverty rate is the share of people

with an equivalised disposable income below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. This threshold is defined from Eurostat as

• 60% of the median income

• 60% of the mean income

• 70% of the median income

• 70% of the mean income