ACARA AC9M6ST02, Critique data in the media

Year 6 · Statistics

Identify statistical arguments in traditional and digital media, and discuss and critique the methods, data displays and conclusions.

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Teaching guide

What students learn

Identify statistical arguments in traditional and digital media, and discuss and critique the methods, data displays and conclusions.

How to teach it

Find a real graph or claim in the media and question its source, its scale, and what it leaves out.

Worked example

A phone ad says the battery "lasts up to 20 hours." What do the words "up to" really tell you?

Answer: It is the best possible case, not the usual result. Most batteries will last less than 20 hours.

Generated and checked in code, so it is correct.

Watch out for

Trusting a graph because it looks official, a truncated axis can exaggerate small differences.

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