analyse reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data was obtained around everyday questions and issues involving at least one numerical and at least one categorical variable, to estimate population means and medians
Elaborations
investigating and evaluating statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data
investigating the use of statistics in reports regarding the growth of Australia’s trade with other countries of the Asia region
investigating a range of data and its sources, for example, the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga, or the number of subjects studied at school in a year by 14-year-old students in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Timor-Leste
analysing reports of public opinion surveys on environmental issues, such as land clearing, wind farms or single-use plastics, discussing methods of data collection and the reasonableness of any inferences made
comparing the annual rainfall in various parts of Australia, Pakistan, New Guinea and Malaysia
Code
VC2M9ST01
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