1.13 Student data. Consider gathering some basic information about your classmates, perhaps during lecture or discussion.

a. You may be interested in the distribution of student heights.

Which type of variable is student height? Explain how you would collect the data if the class had 30 or 40 students. Which kind of graph would you use to display the data?

b. You may also be interested in the class gender breakdown.

Which type of variable is student gender? Explain how you would collect the data if the class had 30 or 40 students. Which kind of graph would you use to display the data?

c. We know that, overall, men tend to be taller than women.
Therefore, it would be a good idea to graph and interpret the student height data separately for male and female students.
Would the way you collected the data in parts a and b allow you to do this? How would you need to collect and organize the data to allow a comparison of heights for both genders? Which part of the Discussion on page 26 addresses this issue?