Quiz #2, 2025, Wednesday, April 23

• 2025 Quiz #2

• Shell for 2025 Quiz #2

• Answers for 2025 Quiz #2

Translation of Raw Score to Letter Grade Equivalent

If I had to base your final grade on only this exam, here is what I would do:

25-26 A

24 A-

21-23 B+

20 B

18-19 B-

17 C+

14-16 C

11-13 C-

Blog Posts and Articles to Read to Prepare for 2025 Quiz #2:

• “Desiderata,” by Max Ehrmann (Optional: Wikipedia article on “Desiderata”)

• Alan Watts: Each of Us Can Say “I am the Universe”

• Alan Watts: How to Come Back from Alienation with the Universe and with Ourselves

• “Measuring the Essence of the Good Life,” by Dan Benjamin, Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz and Miles Kimball

• “Judging the Nations: Wealth and Happiness Are Not Enough,” by Miles Kimball

• “What Do People Want?” by Tushar Kundu, Dan Benjamin, Kristen Cooper and Miles Kimball

• “Because Genes of a Child are Random Given the Genes of the Parents, It is a Lot Easier to Tell If Genes Cause Diabetes than to Tell If Crime Causes Diabetes”

• “Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance,” by Miles Kimball

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Here is what I had about Quiz #2 two years ago:

• 2023 Shell for Quiz #2

• 2023 Quiz #2

• 2023 Histogram of Scores for Quiz #2

• 2023 Answers for Quiz #2

Statistical Interpretation Principles to be Tested on the Quiz

• Whether the direction of bias is 0, +, - or ? given an arrow diagram with +’s and -’s on the arrows

• Multicollinearity in practice

• 5 Big Mistakes People Make in Statistical Interpretation

• Note: Using the false discovery rate (FDR) approach to deal with multiple hypothesis testing will not be tested on this quiz, but you will be expected to use it where appropriate in your term paper. Note that “Who Leaves Mormonism?” and “A Well-Being Snapshot in a Changing World” use the false discovery rate approach.