Sampling with Beyonce

In this activity students will take a sample of words from 'Crazy in Love' and work out the mean length of the words. They will then do this with a random sample of words and compare. This is to show how difficult it is to take a representation sample without random sampling. I recommend that you pace this activity from screens 1-11 and set this for students to do independently. Then explore the remaining screens together as a class (present the dot plots on a big screen in your classroom). This activity comes from The Stats Medic Image source

By Catherine van Saarloos