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Is Tiger That Great? - Online Essay

Is Tiger That Great?

There has been a vast amount of media exposure on Tiger Woods. The media made Tiger Woods out to be some sort of golf god that nobody could beat and he was totally reshaping the way the game was played. We did not believe that that Tiger Woods was really as good as the media said he was.
First off, we went to http://www.pgatour.com and http://www.tigerwoods.com to collect our data. We found the average scores of the top 100 PGA tour players. We found that Tiger Woods was actually ranked in second place, one spot behind the scoring average leader, David Duval. However, there are currently somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 players playing the PGA Tour. It’s not too bad to beat ...

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is backed by a great deal of statistical information and factual, proven input through our own calculations. After finding our data online it was already clearly evident that Woods’ was a good player, but we wondered how much better he would seem after the math was done. We hope some of the following numbers impress you as much as they did us. The mean score of a PGA Tour Top 100 player is currently 70.63. Woods’ mean score is a dazzling 69.21. The total number of observations in our experiment was 104, because of certain PGA Tour ties within the averages. Our standard deviation, which is the measure of the spread of a distribution, was found to be .52 for the Top 100 scores. The inner quartile range (middle 50%) of the data is .81. This is the difference between quartile 3 and quartile 1, which are 71.06 and 70.25 respectively. The median, or middle of all 100 scores was 70.8, with a minimum score of 69.13 (#1 David Duval), and a maximum of 71.24 (#100 ...

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