Case studies and current events will be used to discuss and examine a wide variety of basic statistical concepts.  The major topics of study will be producing data, organizing data, chance, and inference.  Innumeracy—the mathematical counterpart of illiteracy—and its consequences will be examined.  However, this will not be a typical introductory statistics course.  Students will be engaged in class discussions from case studies dealing with stock scams, advertising claims, newspaper psychics, medical reports, public policy decisions, sports records, political elections, gender discrimination, lawsuits, drug testing, lotteries, government statistics, data ethics, and a wide variety of other areas.  The class will be a mixture of lecture and discussion, with much more of the latter, based on selected readings.  Students will critically analyze statistics that are reported in current periodicals.  The focus of this course will not be on computation, but rather on reasoning.  Oral and written reports will be expected.  No Prerequisites.