Activity 1-1 Types of Variables
Activity 1-2 Penny Thoughts
Activity 1-3 Value of Statistics
Activity 1-4 Gender of Physicians
Activity 1-5 Types of Variables (cont.)
Activity 1-6 Types of Variables (cont.)
Activity 1-7 Students' Political Views
Activity 1-8 Hazardousness of Sports
Activity 1-9 Super Bowls and Oscar Winners
Activity 1-10 Variables of Personal Interest
Activity 2-1 Student Travels
Activity 2-2 Gender of Physicians (cont.)
Activity 2-3 Tennis Simulations
Activity 2-4 Students' Travels (cont.)
Activity 2-5 Word Lengths (cont.)
Activity 2-6 Broadway Shows
Activity 2-7 Value of Statistics (cont.)
Activity 3-1 Hypothetical Exam scores
Activity 3-2 British Rulers' Reigns
Activity 3-3 Pennsylvania College Tuitions
Activity 3-4 British Rulers' Reigns (cont.)
Activity 3-5 Students' Measurements
Activity 3-6 Hypothetical Manufacturing Processes
Activity 3-7 Marriage Ages
Activity 3-8 Hitchcock Films
Activity 3-9 Jurassic Park Dinosaur Heights
Activity 3-10 Summer Blockbuster Movies
Activity 3-11 Turnpike Distances
Activity 3-12 College Tuition Increases
Activity 3-13 ATM Withdrawals
Activity 3-14 Voting for Perot
Activity 3-15 Word Lengths (cont.)
Activity 4-1 Supreme Court Service
Activity 4-2 Faculty Years of Service
Activity 4-3 Properties of Averages
Activity 4-4 Readability of Cancer
Activity 4-5 Students' Distances from Home
Activity 4-6 Planetary Measurements
Activity 4-7 Supreme Court Service (cont.)
Activity 4-8 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 4-9 Tennis Simulations (cont.)
Activity 4-10 ATM Withdrawals (cont.)
Activity 4-11 Gender of Physicians (cont.)
Activity 4-12 Creating Examples
Activity 4-13 Wrongful Conclusions
Activity 5-1 Supreme Court Service (cont.)
Activity 5-2 Properties of Measures of Spread
Activity 5-3 Placement Exam Scores
Activity 5-4 SATs and ACTs
Activity 5-5 Hypothetical Manufacturing Processes (cont.)
Activity 5-6 Climatic Conditions
Activity 5-7 Planetary Measurements (cont.)
Activity 5-8 Students' Travels (cont.)
Activity 5-9 Word Lengths (cont.)
Activity 5-10 Tennis Simulations (cont.)
Activity 5-11 Students' Distances from Home (cont.)
Activity 5-12 SATs and ACTs (cont.)
Activity 5-13 SATs and ACTs (cont.)
Activity 5-14 Guessing Standard Deviations
Activity 5-15 Limitations of Boxplots
Activity 5-16 Creating Examples (cont.)
Activity 5-17 More Measures of Center
Activity 5-18 Hypothetical ATM Withdrawals
Activity 6-1 Shifting Populations
Activity 6-2 Professional Golfers' Winnings
Activity 6-3 Ages of Coins
Activity 6-4 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 6-5 Students' Travels (cont.)
Activity 6-6 Tennis Simulations (cont.)
Activity 6-7 Automobile Theft Rates
Activity 6-8 Lifetimes of Notables
Activity 6-9 Hitchcock Films (cont.)
Activity 6-10 Value of Statistics (cont.)
Activity 6-11 Governors' Salaries
Activity 6-12 Voting for Perot (cont.)
Activity 6-13 Cars' Fuel Efficiency
Activity 6-14 Word Lengths (cont.)
Activity 6-15 Mutual Fund Returns
Activity 6-16 Star Trek Episodes
Activity 6-17 Shifting Populations (cont.)
Activity 7-1 Cars' Fuel Efficiency (cont.)
Activity 7-2 Guess the Association
Activity 7-3 Marriage Ages (cont.)
Activity 7-4 Space Shuttle O-Rings
Activity 7-5 Fast Food Sandwiches
Activity 7-6 Students' Family Sizes
Activity 7-7 Air Fares
Activity 7-8 Broadway Shows (cont.)
Activity 7-9 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 7-10 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 7-11 College Alumni Donations
Activity 7-12 Peanut Butter
Activity 7-13 States' SAT averages
Activity 7-14 Governors' Salaries (cont.)
Activity 7-15 Teaching Evaluations
Activity 7-16 Variables of Personal Interest (cont.)
Activity 8-1 Properties of Correlation
Activity 8-2 Televisions and Life Experience
Activity 8-3 Cars' Fuel Efficiency(cont.)
Activity 8-4 Guess the Correlation
Activity 8-5 Properties of Correlation (cont.)
Activity 8-6 States' SAT Averages (cont.)
Activity 8-7 Ice Cream, Drownings, and Fire Damage
Activity 8-8 Evaluation of Course Effectiveness
Activity 8-9 Space Shuttle O-Ring Failures (cont.)
Activity 8-10 Climatic Conditions
Activity 8-11 Students' Family Sizes (cont.)
Activity 8-12 Students' Travels (cont.)
Activity 8-13 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 8-14 "Top Ten" Rankings
Activity 8-15 Star Trek Episodes (cont.)
Activity 8-16 Variables of Personal Interest (cont.)
Activity 9-1 Air Fares (cont.)
Activity 9-2 Air Fares (cont.)
Activity 9-3 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 9-4 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 9-5 Cars' Fuel Efficiency (cont.)
Activity 9-6 Governors' Salaries (cont.)
Activity 9-7 Basketball Rookie Salaries
Activity 9-8 Fast Food Sandwiches (cont.)
Activity 9-9 Electricity Bills
Activity 9-10 Turnpike Tolls
Activity 9-11 Broadway Shows (cont.)
Activity 9-12 Climatic Conditions (cont.)
Activity 10-1 Gestation and Longevity
Activity 10-2 Planetary Measurements (cont.)
Activity 10-3 Televisions and Life Expectancy (cont.)
Activity 10-4 Planetary Measurements (cont.)
Activity 10-5 Summer Blockbuster Movies (cont.)
Activity 10-6 College Enrollments
Activity 10-7 Gestation and Longevity (cont.)
Activity 10-8 Turnpike Tolls (cont.)
Activity 11-1 Penny Thoughts (cont.)
Activity 11-2 Age and Political Ideology
Activity 11-3 Pregnancy, AZT, and HIV
Activity 11-4 Hypothetical Hospital Recovery Rates
Activity 11-5 Hypothetical Employee Retention Predictions
Activity 11-6 Gender-Stereotypical Toy Advertising
Activity 11-7 Gender-Stereotypical Toy Advertising
Activity 11-8 Female Senators
Activity 11-9 Jurassic Park Popularity
Activity 11-10 Gender of Physicians (cont.)
Activity 11-11 Children's Living Arrangements
Activity 11-12 Civil War Generals
Activity 11-13 Berkeley Graduate Admissions
Activity 11-14 Baldness and Heart Disease
Activity 11-15 Softball Batting Averages
Activity 11-16 Employee Dismissals
Activity 11-17 Politics and Ice Cream
Activity 11-18 Penny Thoughts (cont.)
Activity 11-19 Variables of Personal Interest (cont.)
Activity 12-1 Elvis Presley and Alf Landon
Activity 12-2 Sampling U.S. Senators
Activity 12-3 Sampling U.S. Senators (cont.)
Activity 12-4 Sampling U.S. Senators (cont.)
Activity 12-5 Emotional Support
Activity 12-6 Alternative Medicine
Activity 12-7 Courtroom Cameras
Activity 12-8 Boy and Girl Births
Activity 12-9 Parameters Versus Statistics
Activity 12-10 Nonsampling Sources of Bias
Activity 12-11 Survey of Personal Interest
Activity 13-1 Colors of Reese's Pieces Candies
Activity 13-2 Simulating Reese's Pieces
Activity 13-3 Parameters vs. Statistics (cont.)
Activity 13-4 Presidential Votes
Activity 13-5 Presidential Votes (cont.)
Activity 13-6 Presidential Votes (cont.)
Activity 13-7 American Moral Decline
Activity 13-8 Cat Households
Activity 13-9 Cat Households (cont.)
Activity 13-10 Boy and Girl Births (cont.)
Activity 14-1 Widget Manufacturing
Activity 14-2 Widget Manufacturing (cont.)
Activity 14-3 ESP Testing
Activity 14-4 ESP Testing (cont.)
Activity 14-5 Jury Selection
Activity 14-6 Penny Thoughts (cont.)
Activity 14-7 Good News/Bad News
Activity 14-8 Home Court Advantage
Activity 15-1 Placement Scores and Reese's Pieces
Activity 15-2 Standard Normal Calculations
Activity 15-3 IQ Scores
Activity 15-4 Normal Curves
Activity 15-6 Pregnancy Durations
Activity 15-7 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 15-8 Candy Bar Weights
Activity 15-9 Family Lifetimes
Activity 15-10 Cars' Fuel Efficiency (cont.)
Activity 15-11 Climatic Conditions (cont.)
Activity 15-12 SATs and ACTs (cont.)
Activity 15-13 Empirical Rule
Activity 15-14 Critical Values
Activity 15-15 Random Normal Data
Activity 15-16 Miscellaneous Normal Distributions
Activity 16-1 Sampling Reese's Pieces (cont.)
Activity 16-2 ESP Testing (cont.)
Activity 16-3 Effects of Sample Size
Activity 16-4 ESP Testing (cont.)
Activity 16-5 Voting Behavior
Activity 16-6 Presidential Votes (cont.)
Activity 16-7 Widget Manufacturing (cont.)
Activity 16-8 Boy and Girl Births (cont.)
Activity 16-9 Sampling Reese's Pieces (cont.)
Activity 16-10 Voter Turnout (cont.)
Activity 16-11 Non-English Speakers
Activity 16-12 Home Court Advantage (cont.)
Activity 16-13 Home Court Advantage (cont.)
Activity 16-14 Mother's Day Cards
Activity 17-1 Penny Spinning
Activity 17-2 Critical Values
Activity 17-3 Penny Spinning (cont.)
Activity 17-4 Computer Simulations
Activity 17-5 Effect of Confidence Level
Activity 17-6 Effect of Sampling Size
Activity 17-7 Students' Glasses in Class
Activity 17-8 Closeness of Baseball Games
Activity 17-9 Magazine Advertisements
Activity 17-10 Television Magic
Activity 17-11 Cat Households (cont.)
Activity 17-12 Charitable Contributions
Activity 17-13 Marriage Ages (cont.)
Activity 17-14 Age and Political Ideology (cont.)
Activity 17-15 Students' Travels (cont.)
Activity 18-1 American Moral Decline (cont.)
Activity 18-2 Congressional Term Limits
Activity 18-3 Female Senators(cont.)
Activity 18-4 College Students' Credit
Activity 18-5 Voter Dissatisfaction with Congress
Activity 18-6 American Moral Decline (cont.)
Activity 18-7 Telephone Books
Activity 18-8 Tax Return Errors
Activity 18-9 Penny Spinning (cont.)
Activity 18-10 Emotional Support (cont.)
Activity 18-11 Elvis and Alf (cont.)
Activity 18-12 Veterans' Marital Problems
Activity 18-13 Jury Representativeness
Activity 18-14 Penny Thoughts (cont.)
Activity 18-15 Confidence Interval of Personal Interest
Activity 18-16 Confidence Interval of Personal Interest (cont.)
Activity 19-1 ESP Testing (cont.)
Activity 19-2 ESP Testing (cont.)
Activity 19-3 Effect of Sample Size
Activity 19-4 Home Court Advantage (cont.)
Activity 19-5 Hiring Decisions
Activity 19-6 Lady Testing Tea
Activity 19-7 ESP Testing (cont.)
Activity 19-8 Television Magic (cont.)
Activity 19-9 Marriage Ages (cont.)
Activity 19-10 Veterans' Martial Problems (cont.)
Activity 19-11 Jury Representativeness (cont.)
Activity 19-12 Dentists' Surveys
Activity 20-1 Penny Spinning (cont.)
Activity 20-2 American Moral Decline (cont.)
Activity 20-3 Advertising Strategies
Activity 20-4 Tax Return Errors (cont.)
Activity 20-5 Elvis and Alf (cont.)
Activity 20-6 College Students' Credit (cont.)
Activity 20-7 Penny Spinning (cont.)
Activity 20-8 Cat Households (cont.)
Activity 20-9 Voter Dissatisfaction and Congress (cont.)
Activity 20-10 Telephone Books (cont.)
Activity 20-11 Female Senators (cont.)
Activity 20-12 Taste Testing Experiments
Activity 20-13 Home Court Advantage (cont.)
Activity 20-14 Age and Political Ideology (cont.)
Activity 20-15 College Students' Credit (cont.)
Activity 20-16 Phone-In Polling
Activity 21-1 SAT Coaching
Activity 21-2 Pet Therapy
Activity 21-3 Vitamin C and Cold Resistance
Activity 21-4 Pregnancy, AZT, and HIV (cont.)
Activity 21-5 Smoking and Lung Cancer
Activity 21-6 SmartFood Popcorn
Activity 21-7 UFO Sighters' Personalities
Activity 21-8 Mozart Music
Activity 21-9 Language Skills
Activity 21-10 Capital Punishment
Activity 21-11 Literature for Parolees
Activity 21-12 Gun Control Legislation
Activity 21-13 Baldness and Heart Disease (cont.)
Activity 21-14 Pet Therapy (cont.)
Activity 21-15 Assessing Calculus Reform
Activity 21-16 Subliminal Messages
Activity 21-17 Experiments of Personal Interest
Activity 22-1 Hypothetical Medical Recovery Rates
Activity 22-2 Pregnancy, AZT, and HIV (cont.)
Activity 22-3 Hypothetical Medical Recovery Rates (cont.)
Activity 22-4 Literature for Parolees (cont.)
Activity 22-5 Wording of Surveys
Activity 22-6 Wording of Surveys (cont.)
Activity 22-7 Questioning Smoking
Activity 23-1 Pregnancy, AZT, and HIV (cont.)
Activity 23-2 Campus Alcohol Habits
Activity 23-3 Berkeley Graduate Admissions (cont.)
Activity 23-4 College Students' Credit (cont.)
Activity 23-5 Age and Political Ideology (cont.)
Activity 23-6 BAP Study
Activity 23-7 Baldness and Heart Disease (cont.)
Activity 23-8 Sex on Television
Activity 23-9 Heart By-Pass Surgery
Activity 23-10 Employment Discrimination
Activity 23-11 Campus Alcohol Habits (cont.)
Activity 23-12 Kids' Smoking
Activity 23-13 Kids' Smoking (cont.)
Activity 23-14 Hypothetical Medial Recovery Rates
Activity 23-15 Comparing Proportions of Personal Interest
Activity 24-1 Parameters vs. Statistics (cont.)
Activity 24-2 Students' Sleeping Times
Activity 24-3 Exploring the t-Distribution
Activity 24-4 Exploring the t-Distribution (cont.)
Activity 24-5 Students' Sleeping Times (cont.)
Activity 24-6 Students' Sleeping Times (cont.)
Activity 24-7 Exploring the t-Distribution (cont.)
Activity 24-8 Exploring the t-Distribution (cont.)
Activity 24-9 Students' Sleeping Times (cont.)
Activity 24-10 Students' Sleeping Times (cont.)
Activity 24-11 UFO Sighters' Personalities (cont.)
Activity 25-1 Students' Travels (cont.)
Activity 25-2 Hypothetical ATM Withdrawals (cont.)
Activity 25-3 Marriage Ages (cont.)
Activity 25-4 Planetary Measurements (cont.)
Activity 25-5 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 25-6 Students' Keys
Activity 25-7 Exam Score Improvements
Activity 25-8 Ages of Coins (cont.)
Activity 25-9 Marriage Ages (cont.)
Activity 25-10 Word Lengths (cont.)
Activity 25-11 ATM Withdrawals (cont.)
Activity 25-12 Students' Family Sizes (cont.)
Activity 25-13 Students' Distances from Home (cont.)
Activity 25-14 Hypothetical Alumni Earnings
Activity 25-15 Properties of Intervals
Activity 25-16 Confidence Interval of Personal Interest (cont.)
Activity 26-1 Hypothetical Commuting Times
Activity 26-2 Students' Haircut Prices
Activity 26-3 Trading for Run Production
Activity 26-4 Hypothetical Commuting Times (cont.)
Activity 26-5 Lengths and Scores of Baseball Games
Activity 26-6 Lifetimes of Notables (cont.)
Activity 26-7 Word Lengths (cont.)
Activity 26-8 Ages of Coins (cont.)
Activity 26-9 Classroom Attention
Activity 26-10 UFO Sighters' Personalities (cont.)
Activity 26-11 Students' Measurements (cont.)
Activity 26-12 Mutual Fund Returns (cont.)
Activity 26-13 Tennis Simulations (cont.)
Activity 26-14 Marriage Ages (cont.)
Activity 26-15 Hypothetical ATM Withdrawals (cont.)
Activity 26-16 Hypothetical Bowlers' Scores
Activity 26-17 Hypothetical Bowlers' Scores (cont.)
Activity 26-18 Students' Haircut Prices (cont.)
Activity 26-19 Inference of Personal Interest