Web Activities
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How often are the presidents tweets re-tweeted?
Go to this following website: https://twitter.com/
Web Activities
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How often are the presidents tweets re-tweeted?
Go to this following website: https://twitter.com/
Go to the twitter account for the President of the United States (@POTUS) and find the last 10 tweets that the president either tweeted or retweeted. Count the number of retweets for each of these tweets. From these data, compute the mean, median, and mode. Make a decision which measure of central tendency best represents the center of the distribution.
How does life expectancy change by demographics?
Go to the following website: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_11.pdf
On this website you will find the average life expectancy for males and females (at “age 0” or birth) for the following races: Hispanic, non-Hispanic White, and non-Hispanic Black. Write down the life expectancy comparing males and females by these three racial groups. From these data, compute the mean, median, and mode as well as the sample standard deviation. Write up your results in APA style.
Which jobs pay the most?
Go to your favorite search engine and search for a resource that provides the average salary for different types of work. Group the average incomes of various jobs into different employment categories (e.g., accounting, customer service, hospitability, sales and marketing, etc.). Find the average income for five different jobs within two employment categories. From these data, compute the mean, median, and mode as well as the sample standard deviation. Write up your results in APA style. Be sure to include a bar graph that compare two employment categories.