INQ-240 | Statistics and Food

Full Title: Statistical Reasoning: Food for Thought

Topic Description:

Do you like food? Are you interested in issues concerning topics such as food industry, personal dietary choices, food marketing, and food shortages? In this course, you will learn how statistical methods are used to provide arguments for such issues and explanations for patterns that arise in the US today. And of course, food will be involved. You will read and reflect on articles involving food, use and create data sets concerning food, and even do a little bit of cooking!

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2015