The 5 W's and How

I think the 5 W's and How are really important in stats. They are really the essence of finding what's important in an observation, statistical problem, news, etc. The 5 W's and How help a person to dissect a problem and find what they really need and what they can use in order to help them achieve their goal.

The 5 W's and How:

• Who: Who is the problem about?
• What: What is the problem about? What is a basic summary of what's going on?
• Where: Where did the problem occur?
• When: What time did the problem occur?
• Why: Why did the problem occur? Why is the problem happening?
• How: How did the problem begin? How did the problem get fixed?

http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-man-saves-daughter-abduction-attempt-211411557--abc-news-topstories.html

Who: Kelly Davis, father of two young girls

What: Fought off a man trying to kidnap his daughter Myla

Where: Chicago, by the Picasso statue

When: Tuesday or Wednesday of this week 

Why: The man thought it was his daughter, "Goldilocks" and Davis needed to protect his family

How: When he noticed the man coming toward them, he blocked the man when he tried to grab his daughter  and ended up getting punched in the nose. Luckily, the family is safe.

Stats NOW

         I like stats so far. I think it's going to be a useful class for my major and minor. I think this is going to be a good year in math for me because I like making connections with data. I like talking about ratios, fractions, and percents, and how they all combine to tell a story. I think it's important that each stats story is told so the audience understands the full meaning of the stat and all it's multiple views.

SURVIVOR

         The activity we completed over the last few days was about survival. Basically, we had to rank items in order of importance for survival. After using this data, we found the mean, median, and range, and uses those numbers to find the common and least commonly listed items and compared them to the ranking of a U.S. Army Ranger.

         Our group would have probably survived. For the first 3 items on the ranger's list, the lighter, steel wool, and the extra set of clothes, our absolute value difference was only 2. I think that if my group were to have to pick about 7 things, we would be able to survive because we would have most of the supplies the army ranger had. I thought I would have survived pretty well on my own. My average for the absolute value difference was 2.72. The range was about from about 1.64 to the mid-high 4's. From that scale, I thought I did pretty well.