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Chorus: crazy talk don’t make no sense jack don’t act the fool, just quote the stats if you about to say sumthin’ wack Probability Police got yo back you can predict the future without guessin’ don’t need a psychic, with you I aint messin’ collect and organize the data driven metrics interpret the trends, it’s called statistics kinda tough to say things are a 100% if it hasn’t happened yet, then it’s a future event lookin’ at past data though is pretty ill see if it can’t happen or if it probably will data is information based on facts not sensational stories, thems things is wack got an argument, back it up, don’t be lazy refer to documented info, else you be lookin’ crazy probability is number of favorable outcomes divided by total number of possible outcomes if you flip a coin and want it to come up heads got a 1 out of two chance, 50% I said Chorus 1 divided by 2 equals five tenths that’s 0.5 or 50 hundredths convert to percent by takin’ my advice move the decimal to the right twice 36 possible outcomes with two die 6 different ways to roll a seven, guy most common combo for that event probability is 17% jar with 20 marbles has 9 green 4 red 7 black that you can see probability of not grabbing a red one 16 over 20 or 80% son listing all outcomes is something to do later mean, median, mode are ways of lookin’ at data mean is average, all the values you add divide by the number of values you have Chorus median is the value in the middle, yessur after listing them all in ascending order mode appears the greatest number of times now comes the graphing part of this rhyme data in a picture makes it more clear pie chart lists percentages, have no fearline and bar graphs, we’ll be releasing to tell is something is increasing or decreasing global warming is a hot topic temperature going up pretty quick don’t take my word for it, check the statistics line graph looks like a hockey stick pie chart says 33% got obesity 1 out of every three of us need to eat more healthy bar graph tells us that by 2018, ya hear medical costs will be about $344 billion per year look at the past to predict the trends make positive changes now and see what happens gotta gather up all the info and look at it all the different ways bro Chorus
