Most of these exercises pose issues for discussion. There are no right or wrong answers, but there are more and less thoughtful answers.
3.80 Facebook and academic performance.
First Monday is a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet. It recently published two articles concerning Facebook and academic performance. Visit its website, firstmonday.org, and look at the first three articles in Volume 14, Number 5–4, May 2009. Identify the key controversial issues that involve the use of statistics in these articles, and write a report summarizing the facts as you see them. Be sure to include your opinions regarding ethical issues related to this work.