Stage 34 · Statistics

34.1.2 Population, Individual, and Sample

34.1 Starting with Data: Collecting and Sampling

Point 2 of 6

34.1.2 Population, Individual, and Sample

Core idea

To know if the whole pot of soup is salty, you taste one spoonful; that spoonful is the sample, the whole pot is the population N

Module goal. Build the habit of answering questions with data, understand where data comes from and how to sample without bias, laying the raw-material foundation for everything that follows
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