​Standard: MGSE7.SP1

Understand that statistics can be used to gain information about a population by examining a sample of the population; generalizations about a population from a sample are valid only if the sample is representative of that population. Understand that random sampling tends to produce representative samples and support valid inferences.

​Learning Target for MGSE7.SP1

• I can determine whether generalizations are valid by examining sample size and sampling methods.

• I can evaluate the validity of a statistical sample from a population.

• I can explain how statistics is used to gain information about a population.

• I can explain why random sampling produces a sample representative of a population.