AP Statistics Summer Assignment - eSchoolView

How to lie With Statistics Chapter 2Read Chapter 2 of How to Lie With Statistics. Answer the following questions and be readyto discuss the chapter in class.1. Chapter 2 begins with an illustration in which someone is snobbish about an incomeof $15,000 a year. Why did the author choose such a small income figure when itseems that a much higher one would fit the context better?2. Summarize Chapter 2 in a few sentences.3. What did the hypothetical business partners do in Chapter 2 to make the distributionof earnings seem more palatable to the employees?4. When we see an average reported, what do we need to ask besides which kind ofaverage is being used? Why?5. What confidence level was used in the Census Bureau’s report referred to in thischapter? How do you know? Is the way that this confidence level is described acorrect interpretation of the confidence level?6. Which kind of “average” would best describe the height of students at our highschool? Why?7. Which kind of “average” (statisticians call all three “measures of central tendency”)would give me the best way to compare the performance of two classes of a requiredmath course? Why?