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

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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.

Take-home Exam (Spring 2015)

Essays will be 200-250 words in length (you will include the word count at the top), 1.5 spacing, and printed on separate pages. Each essay will fit on the front side of one sheet of paper. You will list the essay number in the top right corner. You will do your own work (do not discuss the assignment with classmates or anyone else) but you may use the books, class notes/slides. You will write your name on the back side of each essay by hand. You will turn in essays Friday (3/13) at the beginning of class.

Pick one of these:
1) Discuss The Grapes of Wrath as a practical example of principals discussed in the Communist Manifesto.

2) Imagine that the authors of Anthem (Ayn Rand) and the Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friederich Engels) had a discussion. What might that look like? (I want you to produce a script.)

Pick one of these:
3) Gladwell discusses the relationship between genius and becoming an outlier. Summarize and critique his conclusions.

4) Compare/contrast Outliers with a reading from the first section (Animal Farm, Anthem, Between Good and Evil, Communist Manifesto, Grapes of Wrath)