Christian Worldview Analysis

Statistics provides us with very useful tools and techniques that aide us in dealing with real world scenarios. I have been able to learn several useful concepts by studying statistics that can aide me in making rational and informed decisions that are supported by the analysis results. Statistics as a discipline is the application and development of various processes put in place to gather, interpret, and analyse the information. The quantification of biological, social, and scientific phenomenons, design and analysis of experiments and surveys, and application of

• Provide at least two examples or problem situations in which statistics was used or could be used.

the audience, and it is hard to put it to perspective. Therefore, a statistic is appealing to the

In the video Don't Be Fooled By Bad Statistics posted by Emily Dressler three forms of bad statistics are discussed, poorly collected data, leading questions, and misuse if center. Information collected poorly will lead to misleading results and false conclusions. Dressler uses the example of data collected by researchers pertaining to magazine preference during business hours. The data is skewed because of the time of day the information was gleaned rendered the sample not representative of the entire population. Another form of bad statistics has to do with how the desired information was elicited. Leading questions may result in biased responses. Questions need to be worded carefully so the information collected is not influenced by the interviewer. Finally, the video talks about misuse of center. Data can be misleading if not appropriately analyzed. Outliers, an individual value that falls outside the overall pattern of data can prejudice the conclusion leading to incorrect assumptions. An example might be that of the man who drowned in a pond with an average dept of one inch. The pond was one quarter inch deep everywhere but in the center where there was a ten foot hole.

Statistics, facts, data, and comparisons are absorbing and challenging to present in a way that is anything other than, well, boring. For purposes of an informational presentation, the statistics are unavoidable. However, in this

In his 2013 book, Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan explains a field that is commonly seen, commonly applied, and commonly misinterpreted: statistics. Though statistical data is ubiquitous in daily life, valid statistical conclusions are not. Wheelan reveals that when data analysis is flawed or incomplete, faulty conclusions abound. Wheelan’s work uncovers statistics’ unscrupulous potential, but also makes a key distinction between deliberate misuse and careless misreading. However, his analysis is less successful in distinguishing common sense from poor judgement, a gap that enables the very statistical issues he describes to perpetuate themselves.

Damn Lies and Statistics by Joel Best is about how much statistics can affect our lives. Statistics can be used in many different ways from the media using it to give facts to people to politicians using it for their campaigns. To determine the population of each country, state and town we need to keep statistics on how many people live where. Statistics in are government can lead to social problems which activist will make people aware of, and governments will then have to act on. When the government releases the number of say people who are legal immigrants versus people who are illegal immigrants, the public will often be drawn to the smaller numbers because its easier to understand and causes them less confusion, because bigger numbers

When studying statistics, it is important to look all aspect of it, such as the statistical ethical guidelines. Another important to look at is how Christian World view can be applied to statistics. In this essay, the following will be discussed: statistical ethical guidelines, ethical issues from a Christian World view, and ethical issues.

In the Division 36 group, Christianity is not as important as empirical research on the construct of religion and spirituality. Division 36 publishes “experimental and correlational methods, qualitative analyses, and critical reviews of literature” (apadivisions.org/division-36). On the other hand, the Society for Christian Psychology believes that Christianity plays a major role in how psychologists should approach their studies. They believe that Christians should “seek to produce distinctively Christian theories, research programs, and soul-care practice in areas that are more world-view dependent, where a Christian perspective would be expected to yield qualitatively different ways of interpreting human beings”

Statistics is a mathematical science pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It is applicable to a wide variety of academic disciplines, from the physical and social sciences to the humanities. Statistics are also used for making informed decisions – and misused for other reasons – in all areas of business and government. Statistical methods can be used to summarize or describe a collection of data; this is called descriptive statistics. In addition, patterns in the data may be modeled in a way that accounts for randomness and uncertainty in the observations, and then used to draw inferences about the process or population being studied; this is called inferential statistics. Both

The Assignment is divided into 8 parts. We start with an interesting study in “counterintuitive” statistics called

have done are truthful and positive, the reader must be skeptical and cannot be sure that their statistics

Although statistics can explain events in the world, it can also be used deceive people into believing the wrong information. In How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1954) provides numerous examples where statistics can be used to trick the general public and they also provided ways where the reader is able to avoid being tricked by inaccurate statistics. It also explains how people could interpret statistics incorrectly because the information was given in a dishonest way. In each chapter, the book goes in depth about different parts of statistics and how people use them to fool people with information. For example in Chapter 2, Huff goes in depth about the word average and how people could be using different numbers when speaking about the “average” of a data set.

In How to Lie with Statistics (Huff, 1954), Darrel Huff deciphers statistical examples and explains the means of deception that statistics and statisticians sometimes use to relay false information. Huff also conveys an underlying message of don’t believe everything you’re told, something him and my mother have in common. At first glance, a reader might think that this book will teach people how to actually lie using statistics, but that is not the case. It gives the reader a glimpse or a behind the curtain view of how easily it is to be deceived using numbers and how it is slyly achieved. Ironically he calls the book How to Lie with Statistics almost to tease his audience that the content in this book is not as it appears. To my utmost surprise, I actually rather enjoyed this book. It was a fairly simple read that was filled with new information and showed me how to look closer at statistical figures in the future. The humor was spot on so much, so that I even chuckled aloud occasionally. For the icing on the cake, I even expanded my vocabulary to learn fun words such as rotogravure.

So while I never want to take a statistics course, and while statistics scientifically involves so many numbers and mathematical principles, I am now interested in seeing how statistics is different from what everyone has said. It is wonderful to think that everyone can be connected through these