Bring Out Your Inner Scientist

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The Art of Science: Statistics Used for Insurance Purposes

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Statistics and research have long been thought of as a form of science by many colleges and universities. There is even whole science departments devoted to the study of statistics and research. Even though statistics requires a lot of math behind it, the way that the research and statistics are retrieved by various groups can be considered scientific.

Major companies like insurance companies use statistics and research as a way to determine their rates and what to base insurance coverage on. For example, a person who is in a flood zone has a higher statistical odd of having a flood, and therefore might not be able to get flood insurance, while someone who lives on top of a hill can get flood insurance although they might not even need it. Statistics and research are used to determine who is eligible for insurance policies and who isn’t.

The problem with using statistics and research for insurance purposes is the lack of individuality and the ability to determine situations on a case by case basis. Some cases are unique and although they might fall into a certain statistical category they only do so because of a unique situation and not because that is how they normally are. However, since most companies go based off of what statistics say it is hard to get them to stray from the charts, and this can have negative impacts on some situations.

Even though there are problems with statistics and research, many insurance companies such as 21st century insurance will rely upon statistics and research as a measuring model when it comes to rates and policies. Statistics and research allows insurance companies to have a model to compare items to, so that they know what to base rates off of and can protect themselves against insuring high risk clients for lower rates and vice versa.

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Astronomy Website Wins Science Award

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Alex Szalay, a professor at John Hopkins University, is one of the co-creators of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) SkyServer database. The website provides students and astronomy lovers with the information they need to research, problem solve and discover information about astronomy. The database is connected to a website that allows students and astronomy lovers to explore the world of learning about astronomy in a visual manner—providing views of the night sky without the need for a telescope. The SDSS SkyServer includes a three-dimensional view of one million galaxies and quasars.

As a big contributor to astronomy, the website earned the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) award. The award is given to resources that provide the top resource material online to science teachers. In conjunction to receiving the award, the award recipient is able to write and publish an article in Science to provide an explanation on the project. The SDSS SkyServer article was published on August 27, 2010.

The editor-in-chief for Science, Bruce Alberts says that the competition helps to promote and advance learning in science. In addition, the competition helps to recognize those individuals who are heloing to advance this knowledge. When the SDSS SkyServer article released, the hopes were for it to alert science teachers that there is resource available to them that includes valuable free resources to help them create science lesson plans and curriculum.

Traditionally, to conduct research in astronomy, a science student, researcher or other interested party would have to start with the problem in which they wanted to investigate. Then they would have to wait until they could come by a telescope to gather the data necessary to answer the question or resolve the problem they wanted to investigate. In some instances, this could take up to a year because investigators were at the mercy of the night sky. With SDSS SkyServer, however, anyone can jump on and access the information when and where they want and need to.

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