Communicating Quantitative Information

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Communicating Quantitative Information

• Behavior? Retirement exercise. Colbert bump.
  Artists.
• Homework Proposal. Presentation

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Behavior vs Knowledge

• False or at best incomplete dichotomy
• Also, especially, school/courses for acquiring
  abilities
• skills
• analysis
• calculation
• communication
• sharing learning from others
• habits of mind
• skepticism
• professionalism
• discovery
• curiosity

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Activities

• exercise
• practice
• demonstrate
• share
• participate
• authentic learning

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Retirement exercise

• What are the first questions to ask?
• What are the various sources?
• What are assumptions made?

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Data

• Where / how does data come from?
• sources
• methodology
• Note sampling methodology can be okay
• Sometimes experiments not possible
• Double blind not possible for smoking
• Data may need to be constructed

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Colbert Bump

• Claim made by Stephen Colbert (in character) that
  going on his show provides a significant benefit
  to political candidates, entertainers, etc.
• How to test?
• what is a bump? how general?
• Colbert selection / self selection
• Responses
• http//jhfowler.ucsd.edu/colbert_bump.pdf
• others

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Construct matches

• match at specific point in time (close to
  appearance) people who went on the show with
  people who did not
• party
• incumbency
• donations

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Discussion

• Enjoyable articleread it!
• Another D data!

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Presentation

• Remember instructions!
• proofread and polish
• standard format for references
• 1 pager OR 1000 word (3 page diagram(s))
• Remember D's
• definition
• denominator
• dimension
• distribution
• difference
• dichotomy
• data