Activity 3.5 Applied Statistics
Introduction
Today’s consumers are constantly trying to judge the quality of products. But what is quality? How and by whom is quality determined? Some would say the designer creates specifications, which in turn dictate the quality of a product. That quality is also based on the acceptable value of a part within a whole product. Statistics are commonly used in manufacturing processes to control and maintain quality. This activity will allow you to apply statistics in order to analyze and determine the quality of a set of wooded cubes.
In this activity you will collect data and then perform statistical analyses to determine measures of central tendency and variation of the data. You will also represent the data using a histogram.
Today’s consumers are constantly trying to judge the quality of products. But what is quality? How and by whom is quality determined? Some would say the designer creates specifications, which in turn dictate the quality of a product. That quality is also based on the acceptable value of a part within a whole product. Statistics are commonly used in manufacturing processes to control and maintain quality. This activity will allow you to apply statistics in order to analyze and determine the quality of a set of wooded cubes.
In this activity you will collect data and then perform statistical analyses to determine measures of central tendency and variation of the data. You will also represent the data using a histogram.
Conclusion
1. How can statistics of a product’s dimensions be used to assess the quality of the product?
The statistics of a products dimensions can be used to make the product more accurate
2. In which phase(s) of a design process might statistics be most useful?
The contruction part of the process is what it'll be more useful
Why?Because you'll need statistics to complete the product and show it to the audience