Thursday, February 12, 2009
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To ensure that students can see the relevance of statistics to their personal and/or professional lives, I would like for you to discuss concrete ways in which this stuff that we are learning can be important for you. You can make it personal, tie it to your major, examine how it will be used in your careers, etc. Stats is everywhere... and you can benefit from it! : )
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My major is sociology, my interest is helping young ladies, and women redevelope themselves,after physical abuse, mental illness, low self esteem,drug/alcohol abuse etc,so as a counselor i need to know success rates, suicide rates,how many women actually committ suicide,out of programs i need to know success rates, i need to know statistics (telling a story)that will help me help someone else. If i pursue a teaching career, i need to know test scores,pass fail rates,how boys compare to girls, vice versa, so that is what i feel statistics does for my major.
ReplyDeleteMy major is Social Work. I plan to pursue a MSW. I am considering pursing a career in research. This course is very important. It will allow me to calculate, interpret and analysis data necessary for social work research, such reading and interpreting basic charts, tables and graphs. This course will give me the foundation to understanding statistics of special populations such as women, people of color, gays, etc.
ReplyDeleteAs a psychology major I intend on working with those who suffer from depression and anxiety. As a person who personally experiences these things needing to know the different causes and ages and numbers of people who experience depression and axiety is useful.
ReplyDeleteThere are many different causes and knowing the different numbers and what statistically causes this abnormal disorder would be very useful in my profession
Well when i was home for Christmas my dad told me to take it seriously. Im a criminal justice major an statics will play a major role in my field if i desire to do that. But i allways been great with numbers an this is really making me better this time go round. You allready know! BATON ROUGE!
ReplyDeleteto tell you the truth, im not really that sure but since i have to say something, stats and my major (social work) are hand in hand because they both deal with alot of research and numbers and also deals with alot of different people
ReplyDeletewell my major is Elementary education. In one of the classes that we had, we were given a stat example showing the difference between blacks, whites, and hispanics and the percents of who were remedial, who wasn't, so on and so fourth and since I'm going to be a teacher stats like those can give me reason to show the wrongness of them and the ones that are right I can help make situations better.
ReplyDeleteMy Major is Social Work. I also want to go for my MSW. I am not sure exactly what I want to do yet, but I know that I will be using stats. If I want to become a professor then I will need to be able to interpret the numbers and infromation so that I can teach it. If I want to work a community organizer and plan developer then I can use the information to see what works best for the people that I will be working with/for. There are many reasons for a social worker to use statistics.
ReplyDeleteSocial work is so different than i thought or imagined, i always thought it was just helping people,it appears to be alot of paper work,and i have a problem with that, because case workers are so bogged down with paper work, they may put aside the clients situation because they have to measure this and that. Not saying it isn't useful,but it is so much more than i thought, not just providing services to people in need.
ReplyDeleteAs a Social Work major I know that stats will be a very important part of my career. I'm more interested in the hands on approach to Social Work, but I know that without the stats and other information I will not be able to be as effective. When making decisions that could potentially change a persons life it is important to know stats about different aspects of life.
ReplyDeleteClearly in the Criminal Justice field stats will play more roles than I care to count. It's crazy that this is apart of it because I was one wondering why in the world I needed to take stats? I was like "I don't plan on surveying people for a living." Ironically enough when I look back at the department classes I've taken I've seen so many percentages of juveniles, teens, adults, males, females, gang members, and all sorts of percentages of people in prison, jail, probation, etc. It's mind boggling and everything else. This isn't my cup of tea in the least bit but stats will play a humongous role in my life as my career gets started off.
ReplyDeletem=My major is Political Science i like stats. they help us to see how different people interpt differnt things. we use stats alot when we determine what law or way of thinking will work best in each different situation and they help us with our everyday life. but i dont think that you can beleive stats
ReplyDeleteMy major is Criminal Justice and I pretty much will use stats every time I do do my paper work about a crime. I am going to be a police officer so stats is very important when it comes to proving my cases to be true. Also, when I have to fill out my paper work, it would be helpful and alot more convincing for my case to include some statistical related information.
ReplyDeleteBeing that my major is psychology, AND our textbook is for psychology students, i kinda figure that stats is very important! DUH RIGHT? for example, when studying behavior and how someone may react to a situation, you have to record thse changes that occur. aside from stats being a "must-know" for my major, it would be wise to know stats in everyday life. before i began ntaking this class, i read stats and really had no clue as to how they are suppose to be interpreted. now that i have enrolled, i am in the process of learning how to tell stories!
ReplyDeleteMy major is Computer Information Systems and learning all of these different graphs is definetly important in my field. I want to become a programmer and I know statistically I will need to know what customers like and prefer. I will have to keep up with certain stats of how companies and organizations are satisfied with my programs.
ReplyDeleteStats is something I see in use everyday when I go to my internship. I see how in criminal justice, all the stats for the year determine how the money is divided up amoung the system for the next year..also the way they decide how many court cases each judge oversees also uses stats..in my own situation, I use stats to compile all of the information on my employees...that determines my productivity as well as how efficient we all are being.
ReplyDeleteStatistics are everywhere, anything food product that says they x% more or less of a certain ingredient is a statistic even when you’re going shopping. Life expectancy is a statistic. If you play card games card counting is using statistics. There are tons of statistics everywhere you look.
ReplyDeleteMy major is computer information system but my minor is business. I'm going to talk about my minor because I really dont know what to say about my major that can relate to statistics...lol What I want to do in the future is design clothes for all petite people, big or small. I want to open a boutique selling those merchandise.I also want to design a webpage concerning my boutique so that people can learn about it online or walk-in. This can relate to statistics because people can research this boutique to find out the hytpothesis and a little debrief about it. for instance, if somone wants to shop here but dont know what it sells and how good it sells, they can locate it on the webpage. This how the scenario would go: "I feel like shopping at a boutique! but i dont know which one. Well let me look one up on the internet. Well I found one, but is this related to my standards hypothetically? Let me do some research. Ok, I see that it is a boutique for petite people (like me) and 75% African Americans shop here out of 50% of other races. It is only for female sex, with the age of 18 and up. The store has nice products, all that I need and feed backs from previous customers are very positive abou the store! I think I want to visit!" This is how it involve statistics because you can do research on it including variables, observations and surveys. Thats my relevance of statistics
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