FO RUM
Provocative questions for
analytics to answer
Gen Y/Echo boomers
are accustomed to
having easy access to
information and are
highly self-sufficient in
understanding its utility.
The next generation
after them will not have
any fear of analytics
or looking toward an
“expert” to do the math.
BY GARY COKINS
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Consider what young people are learning in
school today. They are taught mean, mode, range
and probability theory in their freshman university statistics course. Today’s children have already learned
some of this math in the third grade! They are taught
these methods in a very practical way. If you have x
dimes, y quarters and z nickels in your pocket, what
is the chance of yo H [[