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The Demographics of 1998 and What is to Come by Mishayla Moffitt
For the first online lab for, Principles of Biology, it was on the demographics of 1998. Demography is the study of human population. This consist of studying the size, composition, and distribution of a population. It also the process of how a population changes. This is anything from fertility and births to mortality. The demography lab showed the demographics for the United States and other countries, like China and Nigeria. The goal of this experiment was to further my education in demographics and how it works.
For this demographic lab, I followed along with the quizzes that were provided, to further my understanding of the lab. The first thing I did was maintain all needed
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Also when asked if I could find the baby boomers for the United States, I struggle to find them for two reasons. The first reason was, I was looking at China and the second reason was, I never paid attention in history class, so I didn 't have the slightest idea what years I should be looking at. From this demographic lab I definitely learned how to read any kind of graph that I may have to analyze.
Since the goal of this experiment was to further my education in demographics and now that I have completed the lab, it is time for me to decide if my education on demographics has been successful. I do believe that my education on and in demographics has been successful. It was a bumpy start at first, but after I went through and took a deep breath it all worked out.
At the beginning of this lab, I had no idea what demographics really were, but thankfully we have something called google and dictionaries. After about thirty minutes of researching and looking at the lab, I came up with my own definition of
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It looks at all of the countries and life there. Human life, isn 't just our jobs though, it is our age, fertility rate, mortality rate, and so many other things, that makes our lives unique and different from a dog 's life or a parrot 's life. The data collected is normally displayed in graphs and it takes time to understand the graph, because there is so much data. More data is a good thing though, because that means the information and the conclusions we can come up with about human life, has a greater chance of being accurate and exactly how things really

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