1. Sustainability Freshman Inquiry
Jan. 6, 2010
Jeff Fletcher

2. Logistics Any questions about HW1?
Sending around sign-up for 1 on 1 meetings
This time at your place
Please have all your past assignments on hand
Are we all good with mentor session times?
Lunch at Victor’s (Thur. ~11:30-12:30)
Better times? Sign-up?
Mentor Session Today
Peer review of first paragraph of HW1
More on vivid language; minimal use of “to be”
Thanks for feedback on Monday!
Due Monday: Reading questions; HW1

3. Group Exercise
Brainstorm on what evidence exists for human-caused climate change
Evaluation step
How reliable is this evidence?
Why does it matter? What are the predicted consequences if evidence is real?

4. Rain Words I What things can you say based on this data?
Which words have more of a connotation of cold; which wet?
Are their associations between dry/wet and cold/warm?
What statistics would you like to calculate on this raw data?
What further information would it tell you?

5. Rain Words II
Does it matter if we use data from just one of the mentor sessions or both?
Should we consider them separately?
What to the averages tell us?
How close is each students value to the average (on average)?

6. Returning to Climate Change

7. Correlation ≠ Causation
There may be confounding or hidden variables!
What is a possible hidden variable for this graph?