Answer the following questions:

1. A friend of yours is a bit of a statistics snob and has asserted that descriptive statistics are only useful for marketing and sales people to misrepresent the true nature of something. Serious researchers should only use inferential statistics. Attack or defend this point of view, provide good examples, and provide support for your position.

2. What is descriptive statistics? What are the techniques for describing variables? When are these techniques used?