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Data handling

Data handling is asking a question of a set of numbers — what is typical, what is spread, what is misleading. Children struggle when mean, median and mode are three definitions with no sense of which question each answers.

Why this concept matters

Class 10 statistics is this, with more arithmetic. The arithmetic is not the hard part.

Misconceptions, in the order we see them

01

Average means mean, always

An outlier wrecks the story and they do not know they needed the median.

02

A graph is for making it look nice

Scale choices that lie are never discussed, so they cannot critique one.

03

Probability is data, data is probability

What happened vs what might happen, collapsed.

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