{"id":21,"date":"2025-09-23T03:43:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:43:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:43:04","slug":"reflection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used publicly available datasets<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Massachusetts Schools (ma_df): I focused on the variable score4, which recorded the average 4th grade test scores\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vincentarelbundock.github.io\/Rdatasets\/csv\/AER\/MASchools.csv\">https:\/\/vincentarelbundock.github.io\/Rdatasets\/csv\/AER\/MASchools.csv<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>California Schools (ca_df): I analyzed the math variable which records the average math test scores\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vincentarelbundock.github.io\/Rdatasets\/csv\/AER\/CASchools.csv\">https:\/\/vincentarelbundock.github.io\/Rdatasets\/csv\/AER\/CASchools.csv<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both are quantitative variables with a wide range of values making them decent candidates for a first digit analysis. Using Python, I pulled out the first digit of each test score from both datasets. Then, I counted how frequently each digit (1-9) occurred. For Massachusetts 4th grade scores digits 5, 6, and 7 dominated and very few scores started with a 1, 2, or 9. For California math scores the distribution was more spread out, with 5 and 6 still common, but smaller digits showing up more often compared to Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used publicly available datasets Both are quantitative variables with a wide range of values making them decent candidates for a first digit analysis. Using Python, I pulled out the first digit of each test score from both datasets. Then, I counted how frequently each digit (1-9) occurred. For Massachusetts 4th grade scores digits 5, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ablzqz7172geo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}