Friday, September 4, 2009

Topic 3

Please interview someone working in your career field and ask them about how statistics is relevant or useful in their work. Share their comments and your thoughts here.

12 comments:

  1. I spoke with Mrs.Malone a social worker that I know personally, and she said statistics play a big part in her job she has to always keep up with the numbers and data in order to give accurate info in her assesments.She said it helps a lot when you can read the data also and undersatnd it fully and learn something that you might have not known before so statistics plays a big role in the feild of social work.

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  2. I spoke to Ms.Vaughan a woman that ive known through out my life. She is not a social but a counselor but she does counseling and deals with families and children. She explained to me that stats help you to relate to clients. She also said it can help you understand your clients surrodings. It also helps you asses your clients and help them with their problems. She also told me that her job helped her with understanding graphs and data more.

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  3. I asked my boyfriend, he is a mentor and he own's a group home. Statistics for him means alot of things, as for the group home it helps with knowing what kind of training may or may not work for the kids. He said it can help to figure out the budget set fourth for the month and the countinuing months.
    The mentoring,kinda the same things that Miss. Carter stated.With this you deal with clients and their families and any issues that maybe affecting the home. You can look up statistical data to help maybe solve the issues if you didn't quite know how to do it yourself.

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  4. Doreatha Mctell
    My supervisor is manager at Wake Health Health department. So she used Statistics to determine what area in Wake County need the most help, what is the age that most of the teenagers are getting pregant, wherter they are married or not married. she stated that if was not for statistics, it would be hard to do her job.

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  5. I spoke to Dr. Yarborough and she stated that Statistics means to her as a way to file reports on a topic or do reasearch on a topic. She used the example that if one is looking for information on what people believe is the best way to fixe health care, you would use statistics to find out that information.

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  6. I spoke with my speech pathology teacher Mrs. Brown and she stated that statistics is like determining the age of someone. She mentioned how when she starts an evaluation for one of her clients she has to write their chronological age, like jef is 8 years 2months and 1 week old, instead of he's 8 years old.

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  7. I spoke to my friend a recent graduate working on his masters in U.S. history. He said statistics play a major role in the career of a historian. He stated that Historian’s uses statistics to study, examine, and interpret the past. Basically as Dr. Greenfield said they look as stats as if it is telling a story.

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  8. Statistics and CIS play big role together with making our critical thinking skills better so that we can dive deeper into a question so that we can find the right answers

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  9. I spoke to my friend who graduated already from college and he told me that without statistics law enforcement would be in bad shape. He everything that happens when dealing with how many teenage and adults that are sent 2 prison or killed every year is being calculated by statistics.

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  10. I spoke with My attorney James M.Green who has forty years of experience in the criminal justice field. He said that statistics in the criminal justice work place is a plus and helps the police department and also the FBI pin point where more crimes are more then likely going to take place with data from self reports. They help identify e.g violent crime

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  11. I spoke with a few relatives that have been working in the criminal justice field for quite some time now. They explained to me that statistics are used throughout each part of the law enforcement workplace. Statistics may result in the crime and victim, the crime and drugs, prosecuting, sentencing and criminal offenders and much more. Having this data available to them allows them to keep track of business. The negative and positive flaws and what they need to do about improvement. Basically it provides many different aspects of what’s going on

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  12. I talked with Dr Carol Bunch since my major is psychology and she is a practicing psychiatrist. Her response to the question "How is statistics relevant to her career" started with the psychology mission.
    The mission of psychology is to understand behavior and to predict its course. Therefore, to understand behavior and predict its course you must understand statistics. Statistics is important to undertand the behavior and maybe change the course of the behavior if necessary.
    i.e. a rapist: to be able to predict the course of behavior of a rapist, one must look at the statistics of rapists to understand the MO of a rapist.
    Generally, looking at the statistics for any subject is necessary to understand the subject.

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