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• Reading from Innumeracy
• Anecdotal Evidence
• Design of Experiments
• Completely Randomized Design
• Matched Pairs Design
  
• Block Design
• Class Activity - Identifying sources of variation in a simple experiment
• Data Ethics - Small Group Discussion - Exercise 7.10 and 7.18 
• Institutional Review Boards
• Informed Consent
• Confidentiality
• Clinic Trials
• Measurement Basics - Small Group Discussion - Exercise 8.10
• Do the numbers make sense? - Small Group Discussion - Exercise 9.2
  
• Statistical Controversies
• Should Election Polls Be Banned? (p. 36)
• Is It or Isn't It a Placebo? (p. 92)
• Are Sham Surgeries Ethical? (p. 108)
• Hope for sale? (p. 113)
• SAT Exams in College Admissions (p. 133)