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Part 2: Exploration
On the plots menu, create a new plot. Put the population on the X-axis and the amount of
land on the Y-axis.
a. Which country(s) have the highest ratio? The lowest?
b. Determine the median and mean of the population of the countries. The buttons
for mean and median can be found on the top menu right above Averages. The
average population will be shown on the X-axis. Which one is higher? Which one
do you think is more accurate and why?
c. Does the population seem to depend on the amount of land? Why or why not?
Graph the School Life Expectancy. This will represent the average number of years
that a student attends school in the given country. Which country requires the least
amount of schooling? The most?
Graph the mean and median of the School Life Expectancy. Which is highest? The
lowest? Which one do you think is most accurate and why?
Compare the School Life Expectancy to the literacy of the country. Does the literacy of
a country seem to depend on the amount of schooling? Draw your graph below and
explain.
Check out the graph of School Life Expectancy vs Life Expectancy. Is it safe to say
that the more years of school you attend, the longer you will live? Why do you think the
graph looks like this?
Another statistic that we might want to look at is how many people that are below the
poverty line versus the unemployment rate of the country. Make a graph of this, and
determine if they have a correlation.
On the list of attributes, there is a column for number of children (age 0-14). Make a new
attribute called percent children, and calculate this by dividing the number of children
(age 0-14) by the total population. Graph the data. Which countries are comprised mostly
of children? Why do you think that is?
Make a new attribute called Cell Phone vs Population. In this field, divide the total
number of cell phones by the population. Which countries have more cell phones than
people? Is there a good explanation for this? Do you think people need more than one cell
phone?
From part 2, which correlations do you think made the most sense? The least? What
surprised you, and what did you learn from completing this activity?
Earlier in the lesson, you made a prediction on several statistics that you thought would
correlate. Obviously, one class period is not enough time to make comparisons between
every single statistic. Choose any correlation (in part 1) that we have not done above,
and draw the graph of it below. Does it correlate, or was the graph that occurred totally
unexpected? Explain.
Final Question: Recalling the data from parts 1 and 2, choose a country other than the
United States that you would most like to teach in. Explain why you made this decision
and why you like this country. Are there things that would make it difficult to teach in
this country? Explain your reasoning.
Extension: If there is time left, explore some of the other things that you predicted would
correlate. Draw some of the graphs below and label them. If you need more space, use
the back of this sheet.