samecm Statistics .’opo’c> snort-response writing
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Within the first nine pages Of his bOOK, “The Great Acceleration”, the author Colvile presents his premise that we are accelerating as a culture, as a
society, and as a world. He also mentions several explanatory variables related to that acceleration-variables that seem to explain it.
For one pOint, extract and describe one explanatory variable for this acceleration, fOllOWing Utts’s textual definition, on p- 20 Of your main text-
Describe as well one specific response/outcome variable that is causally connected, or associated With the explanatory variable you extract from the
text- (minus 1/2 if you fail to mention a response variable)-
For the second pOint, answer this question:
Statistics is filled With assumptions we make, particularly Within the realm Of inference:
Can you identify any assumption, assertion or claim the author makes that you might challenge?