Date	Topic
1/23/01	Levels of measurement
1/25/01	BE SURE TO BRING FLOPPIES TO LAB ON FRIDAY PRINTING. Some of you are having trouble printing the readings that are posted online in Adobe PDF or browser HTM files. Be advised: your garden variety dot matrix printers, such as are available in AL labs, Paley labs, and Gladfelter lab (room 107) will NOT print these files in a way you can read. You want to look for places where there are laser or inkjet printers to print this stuff out. You can go to the following locations: Writing Center (2nd (3rd?) Floor Tuttleman; labs in basement of Tuttleman if they are open (ask lab person on duty if it is ok); labs in basement of Speakman (Business school). I apologize for this absurd situation. We are working on it in the College. The joys of the Temple challenge, eh?..........
1/27/01	A Cautionary Tale; special note about readings
1/30/01	Reply to a comment on Monday about mean and median; email list posted
2/2/01	RE: Paper 1 1) I strongly urge you not to attempt the extra credit unless you are completely comfortable with working on the main body of the paper and are already somewhat familiar with the items discussed in the extra credit section. You will be much better off working just on the main part of the paper. 2) Philadelphia weekly ran a recent article (2/2/01) about homicides in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and how recent changes or lack thereof might link to state gun laws. CLICK HERE to get the article without pictures. You may or may not find that useful for the paper you are working on.
2/5/01	Standard Deviations and what does it matter?
2/8/01	Answers to some questions from class on 2/7
2/19/01	For lab 1, we will be posting adjusted grades that will be adjusting for differences across paper graders. Those adjusted grades will be posted later this week outside the cj office.
2/20/01	NOTE ON WEIGHTING IN FILE FOR LAB LAST FRIDAY. In the lab last Friday you ran a syntax program that if you looked generated an error suggesting that the "weight" command was not implemented, as one of your colleagues, Mr. Conrad, pointed out. However, upon checking, it turns out that the data file you read in was ALREADY weighted so that the cases reflect households in the United States. For questions about weighting read B&P, pp 14-15. What this means is you can read your data as a representative cross-section of U.S. Households that own one or more working firearms.
2/21/01	Sampling, probability, and sampling distributions of means along with blue M&Ms.
2/22/01	Questions about sampling, and M&Ms
2/25/01	As you may have noticed, the initially scheduled readings are starting to diverge from what we are covering in class. This is because we are spending more time in class working on demonstrating and absorbing particular topics. In light of this I have shifted the readings for this and next week. You may want to check the readings, under sequence of topics, on a pretty regular basis from here on out
3/10/01	Assignments and deadlines between now and the end of the semester
3/12/01	In-Lab Proficiency test
3/16/01	Is film noir sexist?
3/27/01	Outline of the steps in hypothesis testing
4/3/01	Comments on your questions; outline of paper assignments to replace final
4/10/01	Details on the final paper assignment
4/19/01	registering for final paper; final paper and lab; review sheet and info about final
4/23/01	Problem sheet for Movie Lab Paper; syntax for creating GUNLAWS
4/30/01	IMPORTANT GRADING ANNOUNCEMENT For those short on quizzes; comment on cheating in college