Week 2 Discussion: Graphing and Describing Data in Everyday Life
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
OpenStax Book: Chapter 2.. Section 2.1
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source
In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your
outside reading(s).
Initial Post Instructions
Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the injuries that
were seen in a clinic in a month's time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes
that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor's office. You can make assumptions about
other information or variables that are included in each data set.
1. For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information. To
organize your data would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency
table, or a relative frequency table? Why?
2. What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency
distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph?
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by
providing more information and clarification.
Consider how different distributions might affect the different graphs. How might other
variables affect the graphs? How could graphs be made to be biased? If a graph were
biased, how might you change it to guard against that bias?
Required Resources
Read/review the following resources for this activity:
OpenStax Book: Chapter 2.. Section 2.1
Lesson
Minimum of 1 scholarly source
In your reference for this assignment, be sure to include both your text/class materials AND your
outside reading(s).
Initial Post Instructions
Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the injuries that
were seen in a clinic in a month's time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes
that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor's office. You can make assumptions about
other information or variables that are included in each data set.
1. For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information. To
organize your data would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency
table, or a relative frequency table? Why?
2. What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency
distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph?
Follow-Up Post Instructions
Respond to at least two peers or one peer and the instructor. Further the dialogue by
providing more information and clarification.
Consider how different distributions might affect the different graphs. How might other
variables affect the graphs? How could graphs be made to be biased? If a graph were
biased, how might you change it to guard against that bias?
