Orders of Magnitude

Today’s show in two parts. First, Linhda joins us to review the episodes from Data Skeptic: Pilot Season and give her feedback on each of the topics.

Second, we introduce our new segment “Orders of Magnitude”. It’s a statistical game show in which participants must identify the true statistic hidden in a list of statistics which are off by at least an order of magnitude. Claudia and Vanessa join as our first contestants.  Below are the sources of our questions.

Heights

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatPyramidof_Giza
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InternationalSpaceStation

Bird Statistics

• Birds in the US since 2000
• Causes of Bird Mortality

Amounts of Data

Our statistics come from this post