HW:
read sections 5.1 in your book This is the first of several hard sections. Read it CAREFULLY and take notes when you feel appropriate. Do questions: 5.7 through 5.9 (5.9 might take a little while--read it carefully and DON'T come to class saying "i didn't understand what it wanted me to do"--if you aren't sure ask someone in the class. If you still don't know e-mail me). For each sample, you may use something other than a random number table if you want--you might want to get r to give you ten sets of three random numbers before you go home so that you have them.
BONUS:
You work for an oil company that recently had to deal with a large oil spill in the ocean (let's call the company PB). They have hired you to come in and survey people along the coast of the ocean to see whether or not a year later they are satisfied with the clean up that has happened.
Your goal is to create a biased/confusing/unethical survey that you believe would cause people to poll happier with the situation than they actually are. This survey should be ten questions long. It should inclue at least one biased question, one confusing question, one question that uses words that are outside of a normal person's vocabulary, one question that uses a confusing scale, and one question that seems positive for PB no matter how they answer it.