2023 Quiz #1 (Wednesday, March 15)

2023

• Shell for Quiz #1

• Quiz #1

• Histogram for Quiz #1 (Remember that a lot of your grade is writing assignments. The quizzes are a modest percentage of your grade.)

• Answers for Quiz #1

Blog Posts and Articles to Read to Prepare for the Quiz

• Evidence on Charter Schools: 'Getting Beneath the Veil of Effective Schools: Evidence from New York City' by Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer

• An Example of Needing to Worry about Reverse Causality: Satisfaction with Aging and Objective Aging Outcomes

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia Can Prevent Major Depression

• Data on Asian Genes that Discourage Alcohol Consumption Explode the Myth that a Little Alcohol is Good for your Health

• An Example of Ideology Leading to Bad Statistics and Social Injustice

• Evidence that High Insulin Levels Lead to Weight Gain

• Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet (Focus on the interpretation of the DIETFITS study.)

• Cousin Causality

• Can Religion Reduce Suicide?

• Exorcising the Devil in the Milk (an example of trying to interpret less-than-perfect evidence, and of scatterplots)

Also, to help with the style of question I often use, take a look at “Critical Reading: Apprentice Level”