Cherry Picking Data Worksheet
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Complete and reliable data is an incredibly powerful tool, but when data is incomplete or taken out of context, it can easily be used for the wrong reasons. In this worksheet and accompanying video, I explain how you can recognise and overcome the problems caused when people cherry-pick data.
See below for more information.
See below for more information.
This worksheet is designed to accompany my YouTube video on cherry-picking data, where I explain how people can focus on one small piece of data to make an argument. Together with this worksheet, students will learn how to recognize cherry picking and see the fuller picture.
The first set of questions follows Harvard's "Project Zero" thinking routine 'Take Note', to help kids focus on the key ideas of the video while considering things they'd like to know more about.
The questions then move from simple recall to more complex tasks such as cherry-picking information themselves, to analysing advertising claims.
The .zip file contains a PDF copy of the worksheet as well as an editable Word doc.
The first set of questions follows Harvard's "Project Zero" thinking routine 'Take Note', to help kids focus on the key ideas of the video while considering things they'd like to know more about.
The questions then move from simple recall to more complex tasks such as cherry-picking information themselves, to analysing advertising claims.
The .zip file contains a PDF copy of the worksheet as well as an editable Word doc.