Keep your eyes and ears open as you read or listen to the ne

Keep your eyes and ears open as you read or listen to the news this week. Find/discover an example of statistics in the news to discuss the following statement that represents one of the objectives of statistics analysis:

Solution

You can pick up any article which \"concludes\" something on the basis of \"evidence\". For example, look at this article

http://www.bbc.com/news/education-31876338

Children who lead inactive lives are likely to grow up to become middle-aged couch potatoes, a study suggests.

In this article, researchers compared the TV viewing habits of more than 6000 British people born in a single week in 1970, at the ages of 10 and 42. With their study, they concluded that Children who lead inactive lives are likely to grow up to become \"middle-aged couch potatoes\". Thus, one can make better decision about their life by using predictability of this study. Hence Statistics helps us make decisions based on data analysis