Stats

Doing an inventory of your possessions or a government tallying its population is:

a) Measurement

B) counting

C) calculation

D)Statistics

C)

A government taking an official count of its population is called a _______?

Census

Inferential stats

Drawing a conclusion about a population based on a sample

Descriptive stats

Presenting, organizing and summarizing data

A student is doing a project on the level of extroversion of college students attending CEGEP in Quebec. Not having the resources to travel, he simply selects 40 students from his own college. He obtains a master list of the thousand students picks the first name out of the hat, and then selects every 25th student until he has is his 40 participants.They fill out a personality test which gives an extroversion score.

1. Mean extroversion score of the 40 participants

2. Mean extroversion score of all CEGEP students

3. The 40 participants

4. All CEGEP students

5. 22,25,18,27…

6. The 1,000 students at Champlain

What is the Population, target population, sample, parameter, statistic, data?

1. Statistics

2. Parameter

3. Sample

4. Population

5. Data

6. Target population

University-based social disciplines started to grow from about ______

1880

Which country developed the metric system in the 1790s and began to succeed in that country after 1830?

1. England

2. Germany

3. France

4. United-Stated

3. France

Statistics as a university course begins to be taught in Germany and spreads across Europe and to the Americas. During which period did it start becoming a university field of study?

1. Late 1600s

2. Late 1700s

3. Late 1800s

4. Mid 1900s

3. Late 1800s

Who among the following was important in the development of statistics as a science?

1. Karl Pearson

2. Sigmund Freud

3. Karl Marx

4. Sir Francis Bacon

1. Karl Pearson