Monday Afternoon - Scrambled Survey

Personal Information Survey Results

Your teacher compiled the responses to the survey in a spreadsheet and then randomized the order of the columns that contained the data for questions. Thus, the columns A, B, C, … N, O, P did not match the order of the questions 1-16 on the survey.  Unfortunately, he/she did this before giving each column a name for the variable that describes the measurement taken from that question.  We need to investigate this data and help the teacher label data with appropriate variable names, rather than using A, B, C…, N, O, P as variable names. In other words, which question on the survey could a set of data have come from?

TinkerPlots File
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Your Assignment

You have been assigned to investigate data for two variables. Open the file

containing the mislabeled survey data. For each letter variable name you are asked

to investigate, think about what type of data variable is represented and use graphs

to display the data. What possible questions on the survey could produce this type

of data? You can use any analysis tools available to you in the software and

explore any of the data from variables A-P.

For each letter variable name you were assigned, answer the following questions.

Be prepared to share your answers and evidence with the class.

1. Which survey question(s) could your data match?

2. How do you know? Provide an explanation to convince another classmate.

3. How confident are you in your choice? Explain.

4. In investigating the data for this variable, did you find evidence to support a match of another variable name to any other questions? Which ones? Support your claim.