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This professional analyzes statistics and uses them to calculate insurance risks and premiums.
Underwriter
Claims Clerk
Actuary
Agent
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Judgment inferred from statistics that probability of observed findings occurring b/chance= low
Validity
Standard deviation
Statistical significance
Variability
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The media uses polls to gather statistics on a candidate's ability to win. A
poll
is:
A measure of people’s dislike for a candidate
A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery
A measure of people’s opinion about a topic
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What is Statistics?
Describe data
Study of Data
Arrive at conclusions
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'Using statistics and facts to support an argument' is what persuasive technique?
Alliteration
Appeal to fear
Use of Repetition
Use of Evidence
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This is a visual display of some to the descriptive statistics of a data set.
Number Line
Data
Box and Whisker Plot
Line Graph
7
Which reference source contains information on weather, statistics, and popular trends?
encyclopedia
thesaurus
almanac
atlas
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Statistics helpful in organizing and summarizing (but not interpreting) data
Correlation coefficient
Inferential statistics
Anecdotal evidence
Descriptive statistics
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What are the general concepts that represent the study of statistics?
Mean
Median
Mode
Range
10
Which of these is an example of official statistics?
Diaries
Letters
Birth registers
Autobiographies
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What does statistics mean??
Data showing information on one piece of data.
This is the collection, display, and analysis of data.
NONE
12
which of the following statistics provides most information about how spread out a data set is
median
range
standard deviation
mean
13
The rhetorical appeal that uses facts, examples, and statistics is called
Boring
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
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Have you heard the latest statistics joke?
Undeniably
Absolutely
Definitely
Probably
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Based on accident statistics, what is the safest way to travel?
by train
by horse
by car
by airplane
