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Assignment: Descriptive Statistics Due Week 7 and worth 140 points Visit one of the following newspapers' websites: USA Today, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Washington Post. Select an article that uses statistical data related to a current event, your major, your current field, or your future career goal. The chosen article must have a publication date during this quarter. The article should use one of the following categories of descriptive statistics: • Measures of Frequency - Counting Rules, Percent, Frequency, Frequency Distributions • Measures of Central Tendency - Mean, Median, Mode • Measures of Dispersion or Variation - Range, Variance, Standard Deviation Measures of Position - Percentile, Quartiles . Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you: 1. Write a summary of the article. 2. Explain how the article uses descriptive statistics. 3. Explain how the article applies to the real world, your major, your current job, or your future career goal. 4. Analyze the reasons why the article chose to use the various types of data shared in the article.
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The article chosen is a piece from the Washington post titled, “The Big Number: The
average U.S. adult sits 6.5 hours a day. For teens, it’s even more”. In the article, the author,
Linda Searing, notes that the average number of sitting hours per day for American adults has
increased from about 5.5 hours in 2007 to about 6.5 hours currently. The number is even higher
in teenagers who are between 12-19 years. The teenagers have an average of eight sitting hours
per day. The author obtained the statistics from a journal article published by the Journal of the
American Medical Association based on the analysis of 16 years’ worth of data from the
National Center for Health Statistic.
The author attributes the increased siting time to the increased usage of computers. For
television users, the number ...


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