It's Poll Week, Apparently

[thefourthvine]

My nine-year-old nephew has to do a ridiculous poll for his math class, and he needs lots of responses. It's one question. Anyone feel like taking it? Please? I would thank you! My sister would thank you! My nephew would also thank you!

(Added bonus humor for anyone who has ever taken a math class: his teacher assigned this question, and also assigned him to determine the mean, mode, and median of answers. If you take it, you'll see why we are all deeply amused by this. Statistics: UR TEACHIN IT RONG.)

ETA: SurveyMonkey broke! The question was as follows:

[Poll #1354750]

Feel free to take it if you haven't already, and thanks again!

Comments

[illariy.livejournal.com]

What, what, what?! Please post the teacher's attempt at an explanation. :-)

I'm a lurker who lurks in your recs posts but apparently feels compelled to speak up about the Very Wrong Maths. ;-)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

The teacher has admitted she was wrong. She's asked him just to answer the questions he can answer. Which would be the mode. I expect he will also throw in some frequencies for free.

I'm a lurker who lurks in your recs posts but apparently feels compelled to speak up about the Very Wrong Maths. ;-)

Hi, lurker! It's good to meet you. And I totally understand. Very Wrong Math can bring anyone out of hiding. *g*

[norah.livejournal.com]

Well, I was thinking if you lined them up in the order given (positing some sort of valuing behind it as assigned by the teacher) you could also determine the median, right? At the moment, using the current iteration of the poll, it would be blue.

[lyndseas.livejournal.com]

Sadly, you can't even do that, because it's nominal data: because it isn't numbers, you can't order it (well, I guess you could do it in spectrum order, but that isn't technically correct), and thus there is no median.

[norah.livejournal.com]

Right, I was just trying to find SOME way to get a median - if I posit that the teacher had value-ordered them in the original assignment, that would be a way of ordering them that might work - though I like your spectrum idea better. It was mostly faecetious - obviously, the teacher was WRONG, not trying for some esoteric quantification of color values.

[illariy.livejournal.com]

Ah, that is a relief! Mode at least makes sense. Phew. :-)

Otherwise, I would tag this assignment as "OOC, non-con math/colour" ;-)