Math 5: Critique
Imagine our chance presentations (as witnessed in class Feb. 19-23) were
a part of a conference on
"interesting topics." The conference proceedings (the chance project
write-ups) will be published, together with a collection of letters to the
editor. You are asked to submit such a letter. In this letter, you should
take ONE of the topics discussed at the "conference" and produce
either a
constructive criticism or elaborate on an idea about how to improve the
study that was discussed. You may want to tackle questions like: Was the
data collected legitimately? Did they collect the right data to test what
they were interested in studying? Was the statistical test that they
applied appropriate for this data? Would you accept their conclusions,
even if they were contrary to your previous beliefs? Please carefully
justify your point of view.
This letter to the editor should be about two pages long (single spaced
or 4 pages double spaced) and is due by
class time on Friday February 27.