COMM 105 Lecture Notes - Critical Thinking, Leonardo Dicaprio, World Health Organization
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The speaker did not identify the source, making their speech less successful: the speaker is not very honest simply by stating the median salary a petroleum engineer makes. They would be more honest if they made clear the meaning of the statistics. The speaker also claimed the median is the average, and that is incorrect as the median is simply the middle figure in the data. The average would be the mean: these statistics are not reliable as at&t has a vested interest in what the figures look like. This data would be much more accurate if it were not conducted by at&t or any other cellular data provider: this data does not represent what the speaker claims to measure. It is not a big enough sample to accurately judge the data: leonardo dicaprio is not an expert on the middle east or the united states policies concerning it. The speaker gets evidence from expert ronald herberman from the.
