CST 126 Week 4/ MTH 155

We all have biases, whether we recognize them or not. Some biases are a fleeting feeling or thought that we dismiss and some might be biases that we act upon. Because we are not always aware of our biases, it may be difficult to change them. A group of social scientists developed an implicit bias test to help individuals analyze their attitudes and beliefs to become more aware of their implicit or unconscious biases regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, and other associated topics.

The Implicit Association Test is available online at the following web address for interested individuals:

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ Links to an external site.

Information about the non-profit organization hosting the test, test creators, and the confidentiality of the test are available as well.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/aboutus.html Links to an external site.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Links to an external site.

After completing the test, students should:

1.  Report the findings from the test.

2.  Review the findings and indicate your agreement or disagreement and explain.

3.  Explain how this information will help in your communication activities.

STAT CRUNCH #1

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

ASSIGNMENT- this is what will be turned in.

(a) Do the majority of survey students prefer cats or dogs, or neither?

(b)  Use the survey data to determine the percentage of pet owners.  You can decide which Stat Crunch display you want to use.

(a)  What is the least kind of pet owned by surveyed students?

Make a histogram of credit hours.  You need to clean up this column; there is an obvious error.. Use Graph in StatCrunch. For the Bins, “Start at” 1 and use width 3.

(a)  Using this histogram, could you determine if more students are part-time or full-time.  For this assignment let’s call part-time 11 credit hours or less and full-time 12 credit hours or more?

(b)  If you can determine part-time vs full-time from the histogram above, state the number of students for each.  If not, change the Bins, “Start at”  and width and paste a new histogram to answer the question.

(a) Describe the shape

(b)  Does it appear to have any outliers?

(c) to confirm outliers,  make a stem-and-leaf of number of hours of video games played. Use Graph in StatCrunch and “Outlier Trimming” choose extreme.