Statistics in the

Real World

There are all different ways to display your data after it has been collected and analyzed.

How are statistics used in real life? What are the different ways data can be displayed? How do different surveys differ based on the question? Statistics are used for both personal and business purposes. You can find statistics in sports, accounting, school, and business just to name a few. It is intertwined in almost everything we do and yet we barely get to scratch the surface and really analyze the process itself. This assignment is designed for you to explore using statistics. You will answer questions to let you think about what you have done and why. In the end I hope you are able to see that a lot of work is done to display statistics and how different studies answer different questions.