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Oh, statistics. They're used to personalize the ads we see on the Internet, which basically means that they're our very own stalkers. Other than the creepy ad analysis stuff, though, there's so much more to the subject. Want to learn how to predict if people will like a movie or figure out what to cook so nobody complains? If that's the case, AP Statistics is for you.
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We'd need ap statistics eyelash have you ever wondered how
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pandora always plays your favorite songs or how genius sucks
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you in with shmoop has just one word for you
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statistics Okay so it's not the easiest word to say
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but statistics are important They collect and analyze data statistics
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help us explain human behavior It can also solve mysteries
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of the world with scooby in the game So although
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people worry about the amount of personal data we make
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public companies use statistics on this data to give us
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up personalized and disturbingly accurate internet experience like how pandora
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knows all of your favorite songs based off of the
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music you like shmoop can give you the tools to
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graft bell curves in history grams with ninety five percent
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confidence intervals that is you'll be boasting about your mad
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graphing skills to anyone who will listen But don't do
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this from randomly sampling to anticipating patterns to analyzing data
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you're taking statistics will make you a pretty mean detective
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with statistics in your toolbox you could potentially find connections
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that changed the world such as finding a correlation between
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someone's favorite food and whether they are a harry potter
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or twilight Fan Although we have come up never pick
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sides data fills our world Although most of it is
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used to increase site traffic some of it is actually
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for instance studies have found that one hundred people a
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year choked to death on ballpoint pens ratio of people
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to answer is one to one Miller on Finally there
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was a one in a billion chance that you will
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be hit by a falling piece of space junk With
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our help though there is nothing to fear you'll find
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that statistics is just your standard normal tv It like
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us so take ap statistics You may want to hurry 00:01:50.024 --> [endTime] They went thataway
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