Enough with Scandinavia

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/10/enough-with-the-scandinavians-already/?hpid=z11

Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them. - MSN News

A good example of how money and resources can be used to influence what research gets done.

Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.

Amber Hall, The Takeaway

PRI - PRI - ‎Monday‎, ‎April‎ ‎13‎, ‎2015

Back in the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control provided funding for studies on gun violence. The NRA was not pleased. "[Our research] underwent peer review and was thought to be very solid and worthwhile research," says Dr. Fred Rivara, who was part of the team that researched gun violence. "The CDC stood by our research — they had funded it...

http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAaUFQx?a=1&m=en-us

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Piketty TED talk

Link - You can enable English subtitles if you want.

Midterm grades updated

I've updated midterm grades to include the take-home portion.

Exam I partial grades

Exam I partial grades are up on Canvas. I will adjust grades after I have finished grading the take-home portion of the exam.

So far the class average is an 85 (after a curve), median is 85.8 and the standard deviation is 13 (an unstandardly large standard deviation).

Gender and the internet

http://www.newsweek.com/even-internet-cant-escape-gender-gap-312088

Exam I Prep and Take Home Questions

Take home questions are now up (see the last post). Follow the instructions closely.

Exam I prep is in the class OneDrive folder (AB Exam I Prep).

Enjoy the rest of your snow day.