The EU Migration Debate and Gender of Immigrants e document will
Depictions of migrants in the EU
range from sympathetic portrayals
of families escaping violence to
fear-inducing portrayals of groups
of single adult men illegally
crossing borders.
Sympathy for Refugees Fear for Jobs & Terrorism
"As you can see from this picture, most of the people coming are young males and, BREAKING
yes, they may be coming from countries that are not in a very happy state, they may POINT
be coming from places that are poorer than us, but the EU has made a fundamental
error that risks the security of everybody."
- Nigel Farage, 2016 (U. K.)
Speaking about EU migration: 1 said to myself, Wow. They're all men.' You look at
it. There are so few women and there are so few children. And not only are they
men, they're young men. And they're strong as can be-they're tough looking
cookies. I say, what's going on here?"
- Trump, during 2015 campaign speech
MD
TASK: Nigel Farage and Donald Trump both claimed 60% of the migrants entering Europe
were male. Based on what we've learned thus far in the unit on Sampling Distributions, explain
how we could use Statistics to test this claim: of all the migrants entering Europe, p = 0.60.
Write a small paragraph describing what would have to be done statistically in order to test this
claim. Refer to your homework assignments to get an idea of how claims like these are tested
in Statistics. You don't have to go through all of the necessary steps (STATE, PLAN, DO,
CONCLUDE). Just provide a general description of how we could use statistics to test this
claim.