stat310

Extra credit

Pick one article about statistics from the following list (this list wil be updated during the semester as I find more interesting articles).

Does your ipod really play favourites?
What's luck got to do with it? The math of gambling
Panopticlick, including about and https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/primer-information-theory-and-privacy
A Dutch Book (a dutch book is a betting situation in which can always end up winning money)
"I don't think that means what you think it means;" Statistics to English Translation, Part 1: Accuracy Measures
Afghanistan: statistics of war. Helicopters, bombs and strategies
The statistics of meaning: Darwin, Gibbon and Moby Dick
The sands of time: does history obey the rules of statistics?
London murders: a predictable pattern?
Spoilt for choice: is organic milk really any different?
On the need to use error-correcting memory
Cow, compass, bang - Do cows really sense the earth’s magnetic field and point north?
The Case For An Older Woman.
Any other article related to the application of statistics, with prior approval

Once you have read it, write a page of single-spaced 12pt text answering the following questions:

Why did you choose that article? Why are you interested in that topic?
What did you learn, and how does it connect to what you have learned in class?
What questions were you left with?

Each response is worth the same amount as an in class quiz, and you may submit at most three extra credit responses. Please submit a printed copy to me in class.