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Assignment For Module 2 Lesson 2

This document contains an assignment to analyze quantitative data from various sources and classify each as categorical or continuous data. Examples of data provided include a bar graph of students' responses to online learning questions, a survey of student ethnicity, marital status data in a table, newspaper article production numbers over 5 years, a car manufacturer's 6-month sales report, and American loan balances from 1995 to 2019. The student analyzes each source of data and determines whether it is categorical or continuous, and if the data is informative or potentially misleading.

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Assignment For Module 2 Lesson 2

This document contains an assignment to analyze quantitative data from various sources and classify each as categorical or continuous data. Examples of data provided include a bar graph of students' responses to online learning questions, a survey of student ethnicity, marital status data in a table, newspaper article production numbers over 5 years, a car manufacturer's 6-month sales report, and American loan balances from 1995 to 2019. The student analyzes each source of data and determines whether it is categorical or continuous, and if the data is informative or potentially misleading.

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Jan Mark Calugay

Assignment for Module 2 Lesson 2

Quantitative Methods

The Assignment Proper

Obtain a number of tables, charts and diagrams used to describe quantitative


information (at least one for each, meaning 1 table, 1 chart and 1 diagram). Sources could
include, for example, newspaper cuttings, building society pamphlets, textbooks or web
search. Classify each as being categorical or continuous data and state reasons why you
consider them to be informative or misleading.

Here is a bar graph of


students who are currently doing
online schooling responding to
the questions: “Did the teachers
give you assignments that helped
you learn?” and “Did you learn
every day?”

Their answers are


“categorized” into mostly “A’s”,
“B’s”, “C’s” or “D’s”.

I believe that this data is


categorical because it has a finite number of categories or distinct groups in this case
students are asked only to describe their experience using the letter’s A to D.

This is informative data for the reason that it provides straightforward data
regarding their experience during the online classes.
We all know that there is a
fix amount of ethnicities that a
person can belong to. This is a
survey of student’s ethnicity on a
university. In the said university,
students can have classified
themselves into 7 ethnicities
namely: “Asian”, “Black”, “Filipino”,
“Hispanic”, “Native American”,
“Pacific Islander” and “White”.

This is a categorical data


because race is a distinct group.

` The following data may be


misleading because some students classified themselves as Filipino while others simply
say they are Asian. While this may be because some Asian students didn’t feel the need
to specify their country unlike Filipino students it is still a reflection of the fact that in the
university Filipino’s are the dominant Asian race.

This is also the case for students who say that they are “Black”, “White” or “Native
American” because all of these races also inhabit America and can as well say that they
are “American”.

Marital statuses are categorized


as single or married, while the table
may have “others” this may imply that
some respondents simply said they are
divorced or in a complicated affair.

These three categories are what


makes it categorical data because respondents are only have pre-made choices.

In the question if this data is informative or misleading the answer is simply it is


informative, there is nothing really misleading with saying you are married or single. It is
a simple question of either you are married or not.
This data represents the number of articles each Newspaper company produced
in the span of 5 years starting from 2011.

I consider this a continuous data because newspaper companies produce


newspaper every day and these newspapers are counted as a single unit regardless if it
is tabloid or broadsheet. This makes the data of production numeric.

This data is informative because it has a straightforward way of showing which


newspaper publisher produced the most newspaper in each year.
Above is the 6-month sales report of a major car manufacturer. You can see that
it reported sales from October 2019 until March 2020 (present) with sales forecast
spanning to June.

We can observe that the sales are measured in dollars which is a numeric currency.
Furthermore, sales are a continuous data which can span from the past, present and
even in the future. With this said we can conclude that this is continuous data.

This data might be misleading depending on who looks at it, as shown above their
sales up until the present day isn’t going well and while it is forecasted that their sales
will recover it is just “forecast” and without data there is no making sure that the forecast
will actually come true.
This is data from the Loan Balances of Americans spanning from 1995 to 2019.

Data above shows that loans have significantly increased from 1995 till 2007
where it experienced a slight drop. How did we measure this data? Through counting the
money that people owe through their loans. And as defined, continuous variables are
data that have an infinite number of values. Money doesn’t have a fixed number which
makes this data regarding loans continuous data.

This data is informative as it blatantly shows the rise and fall of loans through the
years.

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