New Years Resolutions are the most commonly associated term (at least in the United States) with promoting some sort of change. I also don’t really think it is worth explaining as to why people would choose such a day to commit to the types of changes you see in these types of propositions.

The age of information has both made information incredibly abundant and incredibly valuable, which is a bit of a paradox. Yet it is true! School is no longer the place to learn a wide variety of content, and while I have pressured in the past the importance of being a generalist, youth no longer need a good portion of what schools offer to thrive in society. What they need to thrive can only be reached at an individual level.

I don’t really like talking about the coronavirus, but it has been made abundantly clear to me that there are many types of personal preferences when it comes to personal health. There are some who are still afraid to venture outside, some who don’t seem to care at all and just want things back to normal, and some that are in between. This partisanship is starting to reveal itself as businesses reopen, but with a catch. The health of the public is dependent on the actions of the individuals within the public. A virus is a very dramatic way of showing the concepts I write in this article.

There are eight terms that most statisticians use when making observations, and I won’t go into all eight here, I will present a fun little example for all of them, in an attempt to make you giggle or something.