{"id":488,"date":"2023-02-27T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=488"},"modified":"2025-05-11T18:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T18:24:17","slug":"statistical-questions-apply-it-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/chapter\/statistical-questions-apply-it-3\/","title":{"raw":"Statistical Questions: Apply It 1","rendered":"Statistical Questions: Apply It 1"},"content":{"raw":"<section class=\"textbox learningGoals\">\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Create questions that can be answered with statistics&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:0,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;}\">Create questions that can be answered with statistics<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t<li>Name and classify variables by type<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<h2>Bad Drivers and Good Questions<\/h2>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1174\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"492\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1174\" src=\"https:\/\/content-cdn.one.lumenlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/31195118\/alexandre-boucher-BNrlDv8w07Y-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Person in the driver's seat of a car looking at their cell phone\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" \/> Figure 1. Distracted driving is an example of risky behavior that can be explored through data to identify patterns and ask meaningful statistical questions, like which states have the worst drivers.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<p>Let's look at an article[footnote]\u201cDear Mona, Which State Has The Worst Drivers\u201d article: https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/which-state-has-the-worst-drivers\/[\/footnote] in which statistical data is used to answer a relevant and interesting question (one of the qualities of a good statistical question).<\/p>\r\n<section class=\"textbox tryIt\">[ohm2_question hide_question_numbers=1]661[\/ohm2_question]<\/section>\r\n<section class=\"textbox tryIt\">[ohm2_question hide_question_numbers=1]662[\/ohm2_question]<\/section>","rendered":"<section class=\"textbox learningGoals\">\n<ul>\n<li><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Create questions that can be answered with statistics&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:4865,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;11&quot;:0,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Calibri&quot;}\">Create questions that can be answered with statistics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Name and classify variables by type<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<h2>Bad Drivers and Good Questions<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1174\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1174\" src=\"https:\/\/content-cdn.one.lumenlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/10\/31195118\/alexandre-boucher-BNrlDv8w07Y-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Person in the driver's seat of a car looking at their cell phone\" width=\"492\" height=\"328\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Distracted driving is an example of risky behavior that can be explored through data to identify patterns and ask meaningful statistical questions, like which states have the worst drivers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at an article<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"\u201cDear Mona, Which State Has The Worst Drivers\u201d article: https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/which-state-has-the-worst-drivers\/\" id=\"return-footnote-488-1\" href=\"#footnote-488-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> in which statistical data is used to answer a relevant and interesting question (one of the qualities of a good statistical question).<\/p>\n<section class=\"textbox tryIt\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ohm661\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/ohm.one.lumenlearning.com\/multiembedq.php?id=661&theme=lumen&iframe_resize_id=ohm661&source=tnh\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/section>\n<section class=\"textbox tryIt\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ohm662\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/ohm.one.lumenlearning.com\/multiembedq.php?id=662&theme=lumen&iframe_resize_id=ohm662&source=tnh\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/section>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-488-1\">\u201cDear Mona, Which State Has The Worst Drivers\u201d article: https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/which-state-has-the-worst-drivers\/ <a href=\"#return-footnote-488-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"menu_order":12,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[]","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"part":375,"module-header":"apply_it","content_attributions":[],"internal_book_links":[],"video_content":null,"cc_video_embed_content":{"cc_scripts":"","media_targets":[]},"try_it_collection":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6559,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488\/revisions\/6559"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/375"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/488\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}