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2021-02-18: The black and white pill games

Administrative

Assignment 1 is graded! General feedback:

• Use multiple sources for a number
• significant figures are important
  • Are you sure about your answer to 7 significant figures?
  • Could someone dispute the last digit?
  • Is that a claim you are comfortable making?
  • If 1.53 isn’t different from 1.54, but is different from 1.6, then maybe it should be 1.5
• citations are important
• Figures and Tables should have captions
• Always label axes on graphs
• Case study report structure:
  • Intro
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Discussion
• Units and correct answers matter

There is no class next Tuesday. There are readings to… read, by next Thursday’s class in the internet.

Risk and Value of Life

The black pill: How much money would it take to convince you to take a pill with a 1 in a million chance of killing you?

The white pill: How much money would you pay for a pill that removes a 1 in a million chance of death?

This class was very discussion based - not many notes

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