Michael Tomlinson

09/19/2019

Prof. Criddle

PART 2: Organizing and Displaying Qualitative Data: COLOR

TO TURN IN (feel free to copy, paste, and then edit this with your answers into another document)

Using the work you’ve completed, answer the four questions/prompts below in a single document
called “Skittles_Project_Part_2”. Save as a .pdf file and upload that document to Canvas (Skittles Project
Part 2 graphics assignment).

1. Predictions: What proportion of the Skittles do you expect to see of each color? Complete the
table below, and also briefly explain why you made those predictions.

I made these predictions because my luck with Skittles dictates that I have more of the terrible
flavors: orange, yellow, and green than the good ones (red and purple).

Red Orange Yellow Green Purple

Predicted .10 .23 .24 .16 .15
Proportion for
each color

2. Data: Create a table that displays the counts and the proportions by color and also the totals from
your own bag of candies, together with the data for the entire class sample.

Red Orange Yellow Green Purple Total Count

Counts for my
bag 23 17 19 19 16 94
Counts for the
entire class 405 397 392 385 432 2013
sample
Actual
Proportions for .245 .181 .202 .202 .170
my bag
Actual
Proportions for
.201 .197 .193 .191 .215
the entire class
sample

2. Graphics for Qualitative Data: Using StatCrunch, create a pie chart and a Pareto chart for the
total number of candies of each color in our class data set. Insert copies of your graphs into this
report document. (You could use a “snip” tool or copy the image from StatCrunch and insert.)
4. Skittles Colors: Write a well-thought-out paragraph discussing your observations of this data.
Respond to the following prompts:
 Are you surprised by anything about the proportions of colors in your bag and/or the class data?
Why? I am surprised. Normally whenever I buy a bag of Skittles, I always seem to get more
yellow, orange, and green. It seems that most of the class lucked out with getting more flavors
that are better, opinion being subjective aside. I was very thrilled to be able to eat 23 red
Skittles, which honestly has never happened to me in my history of eating Skittles.
 Examine the distribution of colors in your bag and in other individual bags in the class sample,
then look at the color proportions in the total class sample. What do you notice about large and
small samples and variation in the color proportions? Looking at my individual bag, since I had
made the mistake of buying a bigger package of skittles compared to the rest of the class, the
proportion of some of the colors my skittles from my sample compared to the rest was larger:
my red was 0.245 compared to the classes proportion 0.201, orange = 0.181 to 0.197, Yellow
= 0.202 to 0.193, green = 0.202 to 0.191, and purple = 0.170 to 0.215. looking at the class data
as a whole, the colors across the board seem to be fairly consistent aside from purple. Taking
the mean of each color, the only color Skittle that was not floating around 11 was purple
(12.76).