Chapter 1 - The Nature of Probability and Statistics - 1-1 Descriptive and Inferential Statistics - Exercises 1-1 - Page 5: 15

Descriptive statistics

Descriptive statistics = methods for organizing, summarizing, and presenting data. In this case, there is a descriptive statistic since it is based on an online survey of $500$ students. The researchers collected survey responses and reported the percentage ($31\%$) without generalizing it..