AC9M9ST01

analyse reports of surveys in digital media and elsewhere for information on how data was obtained to estimate population means and medians

Elaborations

AC9M9ST01_E1investigating and evaluating statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data
AC9M9ST01_E2investigating the use of statistics in reports regarding the growth of Australia's trade with other countries of the Asia region
AC9M9ST01_E3exploring how natural language processing (NLP) tools can be used to help analyse large volumes of survey reports in digital media, expediting various processes, and discussing the benefits or limitations of using these tools
AC9M9ST01_E4investigating a range of data and its sources; for example, the age of residents in Australia, Cambodia and Tonga; the number of subjects studied at school in a year by 14-year-old students in Australia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Timor-Leste
AC9M9ST01_E5analysing reports of public opinion surveys on environmental issues, such as land clearing, wind farms or single use plastics; discussing methods of data collection and the reasonableness of any inferences made