READING DUE BEFORE CLAS

Read Concepts and Controversies, Chapter 9 and p. 465-469

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN CLASS

Discuss article, "Sentencing by the Numbers" from the New York Times
Discuss "Misleading Numbers in the News" and "Probabilities Can Mislead in Politics and Baseball" from ABCnews.com
Video Clip on Simpson's Paradox, Against All Odds Video #11 (Sex Discrimination Case)
Simpson's Paradox in-class activities

HOMEWORK ASSIGNED

Homework #19
Read article, "Sentence Revision: States Seek Ways to Make Executions Error Free" from the New York Times Magazine, Jan., 2005
Read article, "Murder One" from the Economist