Statistics Review

What makes this graph misleading?

• There is no y-axis

• It's a pictograph

• Omitting the baseline

• None of the above

What type of data is this:

number of dogs.

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Categorical

• Alphanumerical

What is the median of the data?

• 6

• 3

• 8

• 5

When do we use bar graphs?

• When we want to show comparitive size

• When we want the data to be vertical

• When the data are continuous

• When the data are fractions or percents

Types of data that is compatible with histograms:

(more than 1 answer)

• Categorical

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Numerical

When do we use box plots?

• To see where values connect

• When we want to show the spread and the median

• When the data are random

• To see the mean and the mode

Compare these two graphs. Why is the graph on the left side misleading?

• Using the wrong graph

• Axis manipulation

• Omitting the baseline

• Cherry picking data

Compare these two graphs. Why is the graph on the left side misleading?

• Cherry-picking data

• Omitting baseline

• Axis Manipulation

• Using the wrong graph

Compare these two graphs. Why is the one on the left misleading?

• Using the wrong graph

• Omitting baseline

• Axis manipulation

• None of these

  (is it even a graph?)

This graph shows the number of children interested in different avtivities in a class. Why is it misleading?

• Axis manipulation

• Omitting the baseline

• Altering norms

• Using the wrong graph