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'''Hi. My name is Hassan Khayambashi, and this is the first lesson in Statistics.''' The lesson is based on a collaborative study and a class discussion. Through this lesson, you will answer the following questions:

1.	What is Statistics?

2.	What are the applications of Statistics?

3.	What are the career opportunities of a statistician?

4.	How do some people lie with Statistics?

Activity 1: Watch the following video clip from the YouTube, search the given web addresses, and then write your answers to the first two questions. The YouTube video Clip is a wonderful technical source to answer the question” What is Statistics”. In your comment, please write the main characteristics of the Statistics, include one example from the video clip and one example from your own search. Read the others' examples, and don't repeat what they wrote before you!

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YsiVJFSwGo

Web resources:

http://www.amstat.org/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=main

http://bus.utk.edu/soms/information/whatis_stat.html#1

http://www.scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/whatisstatistics/

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Activity 2: Search the following websites, and find the career opportunities of a person who is expert in Statistics. In your comment include at least five career choices for statisticians.

http://www.math.jmu.edu/stat/index.shtml

http://www.amstat.org/Careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=brochure

http://www.statcan.ca/english/employment/ma/ma-en.htm

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Activity 3: B. Disraeli had a famous saying: “There are three kinds of lies; Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”. Many business people and politicians abuse numbers and Statistics to trick their audiences and benefit of their audiences’ false understandings. Go over the PowerPoint provided for you, See how people lie with statistics, and write one example that you can make to abuse statistics to lie with numbers.

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Activity 4: Search the Internet, and find at least one example for the following Statistics concepts. Then add your examples to this wiki with your name at the beginning.

Data, statistics, Population, Sample, Census, Parameter, Statistic, Quantitative Data, Qualitative Data, Nominal Ordinal, ratio, and Interval data level, Random Sampling, Simple random Sampling, Systematic Sampling, Stratified Sampling, Cluster Sampling, Observation, Experiment.

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