Week 4 Stats

This week we investigated a company called Hitwise. I have to say that it is very interesting. I think that the idea is a great concept from a production standpoint. It is great to know what the interests are of the consumers. And as a consumer it is great to have products readily available that you need/want. But will there ever be a line? How much information is too much to know about somebody? Everything is already monitored through GPS, credit cards, the Internet among many others. It would be an easy task to learn everything there is to know about me with just this information. I think that this might be getting close to a level of uncomfort. But with new advances comes a new risk and many more challenges.

Stats Week 3

Well, this week has been interesting. Our group decided to do our survey project on the health care bill. We thought that it would be interesting to gain some insight on what people were thinking since it is such a hot topic on the news. What I thought what was most interesting was that the participants were very opinionated about the bill however most of them admitted to knowing very little about the bill itself. How is it that people can be opinionated about something that they know very little about?

All in all the survey project was interesting. I was surprised to find out how easy Survey Monkey was to use and it was useful as well. I am not sure that creating the survey was that fun but reading the results was.