Class 17 Experiment: Sampling

Discussion: Polls

Guest speakers: we will have two Dartmouth students who are doing polls to tell us about their experience.

Experiment: Sampling

We will try to decide the percentage of black and white beans in a mixed bag. Issues to consider: how large is your sample? how representative is your sample? how big is the possible error?

Homeworks & Journal

  1. Read Chapters 19-23. Do the following exercises: P324, #6,7. P340, #2,3,6,9,10. P357, #1,3,8,11. P389, #1,2.
  2. Read the current issue of Chance News, find an article and report your thoughts in your journal.

Quebec referendum

Find out what you can about the Quebec referendum, e.g., the poll over the weekend and the vote today. We will discuss this on Wednesday.