From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila
The statistics of everyday life
From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila
The statistics of everyday life
- [Eddie] The world wants answers. For example, you have tickets to a sporting event on Saturday. You need to plan it out. Naturally, you have some questions and naturally, you want answers. What's the fastest route to the stadium? What will the weather be on game day? Who is the best player on each team? Who is likely to win the game? How would you get the answers to those questions? Sure, you might Google them, but how does the internet come to provide you those answers? To find you those answers, industry professionals, analysts and prognosticators utilize statistics. Statistics are now integrated into everything we do. We use them to make good decisions in the present, to analyze the past, to predict the future. Statistics help us understand our society and universe and often our competitive nature will drive us to use stats to win arguments. In this weekly series, I'll uncover some of the basic elements and quirks of statistics. Think about this stat. 85% of people that drink milk get into car accidents. How is that number calculated? Where did that data come from? Is that statistic important? If so, what does that mean? Does drinking milk actually cause car accidents? I'll show you how to answer those questions and what those answers mean in the real world. I want this to be both fun and interesting. We'll poke holes in bad stats. We'll shine light on good ones. Take the rest of today and listen to the conversations you have. Consider the content you read, listen to and watch. Consider the decisions you make. Did you know there's a 95.67% chance that statistics really are a part of everything you do? Is that a stat you can trust? Hi, my name is Eddie Davila. Stick with my weekly series and you'll learn how to decode the statistics served to you on a daily basis.
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Political polls3m 14s
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Different sports, different stats4m 42s
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Test scores2m 59s
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Data collection2m 40s
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Birthdays in the USA3m 15s
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The house always wins4m 1s
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Wisdom of the crowd3m 12s
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The pay gap at Uber3m 58s
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Cancer survival rates4m 22s
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Television ratings4m 15s
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Historic stats stories4m 28s
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The one percent3m 58s
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New Year's Eve3m 28s
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Influenza3m 17s
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Winter is coming3m 11s
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The Super Bowl4m 39s
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Genetics3m 45s
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Relationships3m 48s
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The box office2m 39s
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Unemployment2m 41s
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Waiting in lines4m 29s
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Sleep2m 56s
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March Madness4m 43s
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Measuring what's important in business3m 28s
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Baseball4m 41s
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Income tax statistics1m 49s
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College waiting lists4m 26s
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The normal distribution is everywhere2m 53s
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Horse racing statistics3m 45s
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Statistics and the insurance industry2m 35s
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Restaurant statistics2m 43s
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Catching criminals with statistics2m 55s
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Getting directions from statistics2m 43s
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Lyme disease2m 55s
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Quality control in manufacturing2m 36s
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Zoo animal statistics2m 41s
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Earthquakes2m 54s
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Statistics of hunting2m 48s
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Transcontinental convoy2m 7s
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Moon landing3m 44s
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Summer movies2m 56s
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Reliability3m 47s
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Woodstock3m 44s
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Hurricanes2m 47s
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P-hacking2m 49s
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Salaries2m 51s
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Dow Jones3m
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Population3m 23s
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Epidemiology2m 55s
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Rock stars3m 44s
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Acceptance sampling3m 18s
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The value of my change4m 42s
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In-game win probabilities3m 39s
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Stock market ups and downs3m 18s
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Prohibition3m 30s
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Bayes' theorem4m 15s
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Divorce3m 35s
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The U.S. Census3m 26s
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English3m 8s
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Santa Claus3m 47s
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Parenting3m 6s
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Proportions of coins4m 53s
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Safe travel3m 23s
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Election polling methodologies2m 57s
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Is your data any good?3m 44s
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Storytelling with data2m 41s
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The middle of my data3m 21s
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The ubiquitous bell curve3m 23s
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Decoding polling results3m 27s
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What is an outlier?3m 15s
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Statistical bias3m 45s
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The importance of regression analysis3m 38s
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Understanding probabilities3m 23s
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Statistics tools3m 19s
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Modern organizations use statistics3m 16s
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Combinations3m 46s
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Measuring variation3m 55s
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Sample space3m 51s
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Election win probabilities3m 41s
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Cognitive bias4m
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Forecasting3m 13s
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Toilet paper4m 5s
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Winning streaks3m 6s
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Coffee3m 6s
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Vaccines2m 44s
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Superfans2m 50s
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US Presidents2m 51s
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The cost of owning a pet2m 45s
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Funny movies3m 23s
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Success in the music industry2m 23s
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Home Improvement3m 4s
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Youth sports3m 30s
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Mental health2m 43s
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Chocolate2m
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Baby statistics2m 30s
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Books2m 48s
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Commutes2m 43s
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Farms2m 15s
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Hip hop2m 50s
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Mass transit2m 43s
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Major league baseball3m 19s
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Placebos2m 54s
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Podcasts2m 13s
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Social media2m 44s
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Supply chains2m 51s
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