Descriptive statistics help you see trends or patterns in a set of raw data. A good description of a data set consists of 3 characteristics discussed in class - center, variability, and shape. Knowing how statistics are calculated can help you analyze questionable statistics.

Mark Twain helped popularize the saying, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." What do you think he meant by that? Why and when would you ever consider that statistics is similar to lie (or mislead others)?