BIOL 1070 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Numeracy, Sampling Error, Standard Deviation
30 Nov 2018
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Numeracy is a skill that encompasses both the ability to work with numbers and apply a quantitative perspective to everyday life. Numeracy is to numbers as literacy is to the written word. To conduct any kind of biological research, it is essential to have basic math skills, and a clear sense of scale, variation, and relationships between biological measurements. Having strong numeracy skills allows you to: describe your own observations of living things, critically evaluate biological trends and results that you hear about in the media, collect and analyze data in biological investigations. Differences among biological entities are also referred to as variability. Biologists describe living things by taking measurements, i. e. recording attributes of objects or events. Central tendency includes mean, median, and mode. These summarize statistics for us: mean an average value for a group of numbers, x .
