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A Car Company Wants to Know the Average Age of Cars

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A car company wants to know the average age of cars of their brand that are still on the road. How would you define the appropriate population? Will the car company calculate a population parameter or a sample statistic? Why?


Definitions:

Concrete Operational

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, occurring from approximately age 7 to 11, where children gain the abilities for logical thought about concrete events, understand the law of conservation, and can classify and seriate.

Conservation

The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them.

Abstractly

Related to thinking about concepts and ideas that are not physically present.

Theory of Mind

The cognitive ability to attribute mental states—beliefs, intents, desires, emotions—to oneself and others and to understand that others have beliefs and perspectives different from one's own.

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