INQ-300 | What Are the Chances?

Full Title: What are the Chances: Yes, No, or Maybe So?

Topic Description:

We live in a world where numerical information floods our news reports, our newspapers, and the Internet. Access to this information is becoming easier and quicker for most of us; with a quick visit to the Google or CNN website, any search or article presents information quantitatively in many forms, ranging from graphs, data tables and summaries, and to statistical results. Is this ease of access to numerical information and statistics tainting our truth? Does misuse of quantitative reasoning provide any answer desired to almost any question? We will explore these questions and learn how to properly argue using numerical information. You will explore a popular contemporary, possibly controversial, issue and decide how one should properly argue for or against that issue. How should one argue for or against global warming? Supporting for arts in the schools? Let's give it a try!

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: March 2012