{"id":869,"date":"2023-03-20T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/chapter\/comparing-boxplot-data-and-displays-apply-it-1\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T03:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T03:38:39","slug":"comparing-boxplot-data-and-displays-apply-it-1","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/chapter\/comparing-boxplot-data-and-displays-apply-it-1\/","title":{"raw":"Boxplot Data and Displays: Apply It 1","rendered":"Boxplot Data and Displays: Apply It 1"},"content":{"raw":"<section class=\"textbox learningGoals\">\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Read information from a boxplot and make conclusions<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Compare boxplots<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<h2>Good Tax Policy?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_1133\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"651\"]<img class=\"wp-image-1133\" src=\"https:\/\/content-cdn.one.lumenlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2023\/03\/20191743\/pexels-nataliya-vaitkevich-6863332.jpg\" alt=\"Stack of US tax forms with a calculator and pencil.\" width=\"651\" height=\"434\" \/> Figure 1. Tax forms like these are central to understanding who benefits\u2014and who doesn\u2019t\u2014when major policy changes are made.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<p>President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) into law on December 22, 2017, bringing sweeping changes to the tax code.[footnote]https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/taxes\/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained\/[\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n<p>Read these two quotes about the U.S. 2017 Tax Reform bill:[footnote] Data and lesson context adapted from Skew the Script, www.skewthescript.org [\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe're doing everything we can to reduce the tax burden on you and your family. By eliminating tax breaks and loopholes, we will ensure that the benefits are focused on the middle class, the working men and women, not the highest income earners. Our framework includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low-income and middle-income households, not the wealthy and well connected.\u201d \u2013 President Donald Trump in 2017, prior to the bill\u2019s enactment.[footnote] Administration of Donald J. Trump. (2017, September 27). <em>Remarks in Indianapolis, Indiana.\u00a0<\/em>Govinfo.gov. https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/DCPD-201700693\/html\/DCPD-201700693.htm [\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cYou remember just a few years ago when Trump and my Republican colleagues voted for almost $[latex]2[\/latex] trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations.\u201d \u2013 Bernie Sanders (United States Senator) in 2021, after the bill was enacted.[footnote] Cooper, A. (Interviewer). (2021, January 29.). <em>CNN.<\/em> [\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n<section class=\"textbox tryIt\">[ohm2_question hide_question_numbers=1]2102[\/ohm2_question]<\/section>\r\n<p>How people felt in principle about the overhauls of more than $1.5 trillion depended to some extent on their opinion of Trump's presidency. Individually, the impact of the changes depended on factors like income level, filing status, and deductions. [footnote]https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/taxes\/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained\/[\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n<p>Supporters argued that the law would increase\u00a0GDP growth, increase levels of business investment, increase wage and salary income for households, that the tax cuts would pay for themselves, and that the law would simplify tax codes. Opponents argued that the law would result in adverse impacts, including a higher budget deficit,<sup id=\"cite_ref-CRFB_MM1_17-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0higher trade deficit,<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_18-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0greater income inequality,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Vox_Inequality_19-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-NYT_Kingmakers_20-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0and lower healthcare coverage and higher healthcare costs,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Vox-Health_21-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and a disproportionate impact on certain states and professions.[footnote]https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017#:~:text=Major%20elements%20of%20the%20changes,taxes%20and%20property%20taxes%2C%20further[\/footnote]<\/p>\r\n<p>What kind of data would help us to evaluate these claims?<\/p>","rendered":"<section class=\"textbox learningGoals\">\n<ul>\n<li>Read information from a boxplot and make conclusions<\/li>\n<li>Compare boxplots<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<h2>Good Tax Policy?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1133\" style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1133\" src=\"https:\/\/content-cdn.one.lumenlearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2023\/03\/20191743\/pexels-nataliya-vaitkevich-6863332.jpg\" alt=\"Stack of US tax forms with a calculator and pencil.\" width=\"651\" height=\"434\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Tax forms like these are central to understanding who benefits\u2014and who doesn\u2019t\u2014when major policy changes are made.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) into law on December 22, 2017, bringing sweeping changes to the tax code.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/taxes\/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained\/\" id=\"return-footnote-869-1\" href=\"#footnote-869-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read these two quotes about the U.S. 2017 Tax Reform bill:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Data and lesson context adapted from Skew the Script, www.skewthescript.org\" id=\"return-footnote-869-2\" href=\"#footnote-869-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cWe&#8217;re doing everything we can to reduce the tax burden on you and your family. By eliminating tax breaks and loopholes, we will ensure that the benefits are focused on the middle class, the working men and women, not the highest income earners. Our framework includes our explicit commitment that tax reform will protect low-income and middle-income households, not the wealthy and well connected.\u201d \u2013 President Donald Trump in 2017, prior to the bill\u2019s enactment.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Administration of Donald J. Trump. (2017, September 27). Remarks in Indianapolis, Indiana.\u00a0Govinfo.gov. https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/DCPD-201700693\/html\/DCPD-201700693.htm\" id=\"return-footnote-869-3\" href=\"#footnote-869-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cYou remember just a few years ago when Trump and my Republican colleagues voted for almost $[latex]2[\/latex] trillion in tax breaks for the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations.\u201d \u2013 Bernie Sanders (United States Senator) in 2021, after the bill was enacted.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Cooper, A. (Interviewer). (2021, January 29.). CNN.\" id=\"return-footnote-869-4\" href=\"#footnote-869-4\" aria-label=\"Footnote 4\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"textbox tryIt\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"ohm2102\" class=\"resizable\" src=\"https:\/\/ohm.one.lumenlearning.com\/multiembedq.php?id=2102&theme=lumen&iframe_resize_id=ohm2102&source=tnh\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe><\/section>\n<p>How people felt in principle about the overhauls of more than $1.5 trillion depended to some extent on their opinion of Trump&#8217;s presidency. Individually, the impact of the changes depended on factors like income level, filing status, and deductions. <a class=\"footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/taxes\/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained\/\" id=\"return-footnote-869-5\" href=\"#footnote-869-5\" aria-label=\"Footnote 5\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[5]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Supporters argued that the law would increase\u00a0GDP growth, increase levels of business investment, increase wage and salary income for households, that the tax cuts would pay for themselves, and that the law would simplify tax codes. Opponents argued that the law would result in adverse impacts, including a higher budget deficit,<sup id=\"cite_ref-CRFB_MM1_17-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0higher trade deficit,<sup id=\"cite_ref-:0_18-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0greater income inequality,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Vox_Inequality_19-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-NYT_Kingmakers_20-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0and lower healthcare coverage and higher healthcare costs,<sup id=\"cite_ref-Vox-Health_21-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> and a disproportionate impact on certain states and professions.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017#:~:text=Major%20elements%20of%20the%20changes,taxes%20and%20property%20taxes%2C%20further\" id=\"return-footnote-869-6\" href=\"#footnote-869-6\" aria-label=\"Footnote 6\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[6]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What kind of data would help us to evaluate these claims?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-869-1\">https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/taxes\/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained\/ <a href=\"#return-footnote-869-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-869-2\"> Data and lesson context adapted from Skew the Script, www.skewthescript.org  <a href=\"#return-footnote-869-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-869-3\"> Administration of Donald J. Trump. (2017, September 27). <em>Remarks in Indianapolis, Indiana.\u00a0<\/em>Govinfo.gov. https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/DCPD-201700693\/html\/DCPD-201700693.htm  <a href=\"#return-footnote-869-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-869-4\"> Cooper, A. (Interviewer). (2021, January 29.). <em>CNN.<\/em>  <a href=\"#return-footnote-869-4\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 4\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-869-5\">https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/taxes\/trumps-tax-reform-plan-explained\/ <a href=\"#return-footnote-869-5\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 5\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-869-6\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017#:~:text=Major%20elements%20of%20the%20changes,taxes%20and%20property%20taxes%2C%20further <a href=\"#return-footnote-869-6\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 6\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"menu_order":25,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"US tax forms and calculator image\",\"author\":\"Nataliya Vaitkevich\",\"organization\":\"Pexels\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/tax-documents-on-the-table-6863332\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc0\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"part":834,"module-header":"apply_it","content_attributions":[{"type":"cc","description":"US tax forms and calculator image","author":"Nataliya Vaitkevich","organization":"Pexels","url":"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/tax-documents-on-the-table-6863332\/","project":"","license":"cc0","license_terms":""}],"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\/869"}],"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":4,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6450,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/869\/revisions\/6450"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/834"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/869\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/introstatstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}