Many stories make the news every day. Politics, crime, market updates, education, technology, and economic trends are just some of the areas where statistics are essential parts of these stories. For this activity, first find a story related to current profession or career aspirations that contains statistical reasoning. In other words, that used data collection and analysis to reach conclusions addressed in the news article. Post the article's title, link, and brief paragraph summarizing how the analysis was explained or used in the story. Second, review a colleague's post and ask a question or make an observation about the analysis. The question should reflect understanding of the data. Here is an example:

Step One: Title: "The Academy Awards isn't alone with its color problem. Look at higher education." Summary: This article quotes a blog post that cites 37% of the population in the USA is comprised of people of color and so also are 46% of movie attenders. Yet this year there are no Oscar nominees for people of color. The writer compares these proportions to the proportional rates of black professors, students, and graduates in higher education. The inference is that the proportions of people of color in film and education do not yield proportionate success outcomes in the form of Oscar nominations, degrees granted, and minorities becoming faculty members. Step Two: Find someone else's posted article and propose a question about the content related to statistics. Probably need to read the article, just the summary. For this article the questions might be:

Would graduation rate among minority students increase if it were already known they had at least one instructor who is a member of their race?