Who Did We Ask?
by Anonymous · ⭐ 1 · 🍴 0
🎤 Ask twenty soccer players, “What’s your favorite sport at school?” and soccer comes first. Ask the basketball team, and basketball wins. Ask the library club, and running wins. Ask twenty students chosen evenly from the whole school, and swimming comes first. The question and number of people are the same, but the winner changes every time! ⚖️ In the second tab, make your own samples. Add or remove five students from each group to make soccer, basketball, swimming, and running come first in turn. You can make all four sports win—just by changing who you choose. 🎯 Last, decide: Which survey can you trust—the one asking only soccer players, twenty evenly chosen students, or just two evenly chosen students? This app was made with code too · Remix it and add a survey for your class!
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About this app
Who Did You Ask? is an interactive data-literacy lesson about how sampling affects survey results. Explore the same school-sports question with different groups, build samples by adding or removing pupils from each group, and judge whether surveys are trustworthy based on who was asked and how many people participated.
Use cases
- Teachers introducing sampling bias and survey design
- Students learning to question how data was collected
- Classroom discussions about representative samples
- Families exploring critical thinking with a short interactive activity
Features
- Compare results from football club, basketball club, book club, and randomly selected pupils
- See how the survey winner changes when the group changes
- Add or remove five pupils from each group to construct samples
- Try to make football, basketball, swimming, or running rank first
- Evaluate surveys for group bias and insufficient sample size