Science Court Data and Statistics

Doug Savage is claiming that the chief of police failed to act on a public emergency. Lawyer Alison Kremple says that Shep's statistics were bogus, inaccurate and misleading. What do you infer that she meant by this?

• The statistics are not true.

• The statistics are true.

The scientific word for information collected during an investigation is

• statistics

• data

• survey

• sample

When observing charts, does noticing a pattern always give scientists the proof they need to make a conclusion?

• Yes

• No

A graph is one way to analyze ​ (a)   , and it helps you make ​ (b)   .

• data
• comparisons
• experiments
• conclusions

A variable is something that ​ (a)   .

• changes
• never changes
• can be counted
• is always related to another variable

What can help you determine if two patterns of data are related?

• If the graphs of data are the same color.

• By using common sense to determine if they are related.

• If graphs of data are the same shape.

• Google

Why would Shep interview a random sample of people for his survey?

• Interviewing everyone would take too long.

• It will give him the answer he's looking for.

• It will give him similar answers to win his court case.

Did Shep interview enough people to get an accurate estimate of the number of left handed people?

• Yes

• No

The sample of people interviewed on a survey must be

• only males

• only females

• random

• people between the ages of 15 and 35

The ​ (a)   on a survey must be carefully written so as not to make people answer in a certain way.

• questions
• font
• numbers