Humanities Homework Help

We have been talking about statistical terms and beginning to calculate some basic descriptive statistics like the mean, median, and standard deviation. It is important to understand that these terms are used all the time to communicate information to information consumers, both in academic journals and in popular press.

For this assignment, you are to locate TWO examples of one or more of these terms – or statistics more generally – being used in the popular press, and TWO examples of one or more of these terms being used in an academic psychology journal.

For each publication, describe what the article is about, what term(s) is being used, and how it is being used.

• That is, describe what is being said when the statistics term you have identified is being called out in the article.
• Be sure to give enough information about the article that a reader like myself could find it; that information could include the url, or it could be the author, year, and name of the article.