Sunday, December 12, 2010

Additional Assignment 1

The educational implications of what Google squared provide is it can help you breakdown whatever category you are searching for. For example, concerning statistics, Google squared will search the web for that data and compose it into a spreadsheet thus making it easier to break down those statistics. Wolfram Alpha can help you better conduct research because it will compute whatever you are looking for into structured data which would make researching easier for students. Moreover, it can get into more accurate details of misleading statistics.


Before this assignment, I did not know about Google squared or Wolfram Alpha. After this assignment, it made me think twice about my comments about the “Did You Know” video. For example, I was surprised that 25% of India’s high IQ population is more than the population of the entire United States. These statistics was misleading because India has a very large population and 25% of their population is more than the entire United States population.


Here is a screenthot of Picairn Islands from a search using Wolfamalpha.com
Pitcairn Islands map

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