Provide an Appropriate Response

question 107

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-The graph below shows the number of car accidents occurring in one city in each of the years 1 through 6. The
number of accidents dropped in year 3 after a new speed limit was imposed. Does the graph distort the data?
How would you redesign the graph to be less misleading?

Recognize the importance of scientifically conducted, peer-reviewed research as good evidence in decision-making.

Grasp the concept and applications of crowdsourcing in decision processes.

Comprehend the sources of evidence most useful at different stages of the decision cycle.

Identify groupthink, its symptoms, and prevention methods.

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Definitions:

Components

Basic elements or parts that make up a system or compound.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a set of values, indicating how much from the average (mean) individual values typically differ.

SPSS

Statistical Package for the Social Sciences; a software package used for interactive, or batched, statistical analysis.

Scatter Plot

A graphical representation using Cartesian coordinates to display values for typically two variables for a set of data.