Discuss and criticize each of these two executive summaries from student reports, noting both good and bad points. Is the summary succinct? Was the purpose of the investigation clear? Were the methods explained? Are the main findings stated clearly? Were any limitations of the study noted? Is jargon a problem? How might each summary be improved?
a. “We weighed 10 Tootsie Rolls chosen randomly without replacement from a finite population of 290. The sample mean was calculated at 3.3048 grams and the sample standard deviation was 0.1320 grams.A95 percent confidence interval using Student’s t without FPCF was 3.2119 grams to 3.3977 grams.”
b. “The November issue of Money magazine contained an estimated proportion of pages with advertisements of between 53 percent and 67 percent with an estimated mean advertisements per page between 0.5 and 1.3. The November issue consisted of 222 pages, and the sample consisted of the first 100 even-numbered pages.”
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