What Is Statistics? Video (Against All Odds: Inside Stat's)

The name of the host for the Against All Odds: Inside Statistics video series is:

Hint: The host identifies herself near the beginning of the video around the 52-second mark.

• Pam Sebastian

• Jane Doe

• Pardis Sabeti

• Marge Simpson

At which university does the host work as a Computational Geneticist?

Hint: The name of the university is displayed during the host introduction around the 50 second to 1 minute mark of the video.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• Harvard University

• Yale University

• West Virginia University

The host describes statistics as a way to organize and analyze data gathered and draw conclusions from the gathered data.

• True

• False

Which 3 of the following 4 choices are mentioned in the description of "descriptive statistics" presented around the 2:18 to 2:26 time frame for the video?

Select the 3 correct choices. The incorrect choice is presented as part of the description of "inferential statistics" which is mentioned after descriptive statistics.

• collecting data

• organizing data

• drawing conclusions

• summarizing data

Inference is defined around the 2:53 to 3-minute mark of the video as a way to draw conclusions about:

• a sample from or based on a population

• a population from or based on a sample

• an experiment from or based on a survey

What type of factory is mentioned in the video around the 3:04 to 3:15 time frame with regard to sampling their products for quality control?

• meat processing plant

• smart phone manufacturing plant

• car manufacturing plant

• potato chip plant

What term is described around the 4-minute mark of the video as the mathematical way of thinking about chance behavior?

• statistics

• combinatorics

• probability

• genetics

Which space shuttle explosion is mentioned around the 4:10 to 4:16 time frame of the video?

• Discovery

• Atlantis

• Challenger

• Columbia