This episode looks at measures of spread, or dispersion, which we use to understand how well medians and means represent the data, and how reliable our conclusions are. They can help understand test scores, income inequality, spot stock bubbles, and plan gambling junkets. They're pretty useful, and now you're going to know how to calculate them!

Concepts

diversity, interquartile range, variance

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Additional Tags

how measures of spread are used, spread, crash course, measure of dispersion, measures of spread

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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Common Core

HSS-IC.B.5