The Guardian has stats on height, weight, and age across athletes in the 2012 Olympics. Some questions I would want kids to ask/investigate:
- For your height/weight/age what sport are you most likely to play. That is, for what sport are you most "normal"?
- I don't know if I'd include age depending on how old my kids are. If I mostly had 14 year olds, it would be tough because most athletes are older. But it would probably be fine for 17 year olds
- I might also leave out weight because that's a touchy subject, but maybe I'd give kids the choice.
- It would be interesting to see how kids combined all three variables
- If you played ___, what percentile would you be in for height/weight/age? (I think this would require the assumption that the variables are normally distributed)
- Some kind of comparison of shape, center, spread across sports. Which sport has the longest window of time where you can reasonably play (we could discuss whether this referred to range or standard deviation)? For which sports is mean a better measure of center and vice versa?
- For which sport are athletes the most different from the general American population
What's best is that all the data is available in a spreadsheet, so you can do whatever you want with it
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