What statistics is like for someone who is horrible at math

All right, time to start my first assignment in Statistics! Sure, it's been over eight years since my last math class, but I'm sure that gap will have let me approach it with a clean slate, free of fear and anxiety! Now let's pull up the first question!

This is the first question (out of 20) on the first homework assignment of the semester.

Comments

[Crystal Static]

Stats is easy bro... Calc is the hard shit.

~Crystalline Electrostatic~

[LoneUnicornWriter]

I would go with choice D if you still want someone to answer.

[Spectrumancer]

And that is why I study languages now

[Xepher]

Obligatory:

That done... that's not a math question, that's a language question! You just have to know what the WORDS mean, no numbers involved at all!

Also... slightly pleased that I somehow knew (read: "guessed") the right answer, despite not having had a single class of any kind in over a decade.

[JDC]

I would have gone for A myself, a parameter sounds like something you throw into a function, and a statistic here sounds like something you get as a result. Population is also appropriate as the question states all workers, not just some of them.

[JDC]

2448912 Oh, just read what it said, I never had to deal with 'parameter' and 'statistic' being defined that way.

Still, based on those definitions, the answer is most definitely A (as you have a population of all 2204 workers).

[Teslaponie]

Oh boy. MathXL. Have fun. Especially with your frustrations. Btw, it was probably the third awnser. I took online
Math coursed for all of high school and now that i'm in calc1 in college having a professor teach me is a big sigh of relief from the internet based crap.

[Flame486]

I also chose B. And I kind of have to agree. The explanation that they provide explicitly telling me why I'm wrong is still indecipherable. The only thing I can take out of this problem is the enjoyment of the fact that I don't have to worry about something like that again.