Thank you for your post and for explaining descriptive and inferential statistics as well as how and why they are used. You are correct that examples of descriptive statistics are mean, median and mode as well as variability. These are used in order to condense and organize data in a way that is understandable and accessible to a wide variety of people. The example you provided about surveying college students regarding the amount of studying college students engage in per week clarifies descriptive statistics and provides a practical, real-life life and easy-to-understand illustration. Inferential statistics' goal is to generalize findings to a broader population, such as examining if students who sleep 10 hours a night perform better academically than those who sleep less than 8. That information could be applied to a larger population. Which statistic do you find to be the most helpful and why? Can you help me reply to his