Week 1: Short Pre-Class Exercise

The goal of this exercise is to help you learn to notice how data and statistics are used in everyday speech.

Pay attention to things you read or hear over the next day. Try to find at least one time someone uses data or statistics to illustrate something, make a point, or advance an argument.

Please choose only one example. Do not spend too much time on this.   There are no right or wrong answers to this.  No answer is better or worse than any other.   

Please submit your responses by 9:00 pm on Sunday, September 8.  We will discuss examples in class on Monday.