Week 7

What is the difference between correlation and causation? We will look into it this week. We also have a guest lecture on Islamic science. Additionally, we will be discussing studies which used the Draw a Scientist Test to investigate various hypotheses about the stereotypical images of scientists.

Assignments:

CGS = Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smith
USR = Understanding Scientific Reasoning by Ronald Giere (4th edition)
GC = Galileo's Commandment edited by Edmund Bolles

Before coming to class, you should have completed the following readings:

CGS: Chapters 9-10
USR: chapter 7
Handout: DAST articles
Handout: Islamic science

In addition, you should have completed the following exercises:

USR:

All exercises in chapter 7
This bonus exercise

CGS:

All exercises in chapters 9-10 of the study guide.

And finally, remember that your third short paper is due this week.

Activities:

Evolution lecture
Guest lecture: Islamic science
Scientific reasoning seminar: Causal models
Workshop: DAST
More sampling and t-tests

Looking ahead:

In week 8, we will continue to look at hypothesis testing and issues concerning correlation and causation. We will also look at analysis of variance (ANOVA).