Chapter 9

Page 187 Case Study: The New York Times article discussed in the Case Study was found online at www.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/education/gaming-the-college-rankings.html.

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Page 188 Example 1: R. J. Newan, “Snow job on the slopes,” US News & World Report, December 17, 1994, pp. 62–65.

Page 188 Example 2: Reported by Robert Niles of the Los Angeles Times, at www.nilesonline.com.

Page 188 Example 3: “The other side of ‘test optional,’ ” New York Times, July 20, 2009.

Page 188 Example 4: The “missing vans” case is based on news articles in the New York Times, April 18, 1992, and September 10, 1992.

Page 189 Example 5: Robyn Meredith, “Oops, Cadillac says, Lincoln won after all,” New York Times, May 6, 1999.

Page 190 Example 6: B. Yuncker, “The strange case of the painted mice,” Saturday Review/World, November 30, 1974, p. 53.

Page 191 Example 8: E. Marshall, “San Diego’s tough stand on research fraud,” Science, 234 (1986), pp. 534–535.

Page 192 Example 9: The second item is from Chance News, www.causeweb.org/wiki/chance/index.php/Main_Page.

Page 192 Example 10: Darryl Nester spotted this ad.

Page 193 Example 11: Science, 192 (1976), p. 1081.

Page 193 Example 12: Historical prices of the NASDAQ composite index can be found at http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EIXIC.

Page 195 Example 13: Quotation from the American Heart Association statement “Cardiovascular disease in women,” found at www.americanheart.org.

Page 195 Example 14: Edwin S. Rubenstein, “Inequality,” Forbes, November 1, 1999, pp. 158–160; and Bureau of the Census, Money Income in the United States, 1998.

Page 198 Exercise 9.8: Providence (R.I.) Journal, December 24, 1999. We found the article in Chance News 9.02.

Page 199 Exercise 9.11: Fine Gardening, September/October 1989, p. 76.

Page 199 Exercise 9.13: Condé Nast Traveler magazine, June 1992.

Page 199 Exercise 9.14: Science, 189 (1975), p. 373.

Page 199 Exercise 9.15: Lafayette (Ind.) Journal and Courier, October 23, 1988.

Page 199 Exercise 9.16: This example is courtesy of Professor Steve Samuels, Purdue University.

Page 200 Exercise 9.17: Letter by L. Jarvik in the New York Times, May 4, 1993. The editorial, “Muggings in the kitchen,” appeared on April 23, 1993.

Page 200 Exercise 9.18: New York Times, April 21, 1986.

Page 200 Exercise 9.21: Found online at www.dissentmagazine.org/online.php?id=315.

Page 201 Exercise 9.24: Organic Gardening, July 1983.

Page 201 Exercise 9.25: Organic Gardening, March 1983.