Chapter 8

Page 163 Case Study: See the EESEE story “Brain size and intelligence.” This EESEE story is based on L. Willerman, R. Schultz, J. N. Rutledge, and E. Bigler, “In vivo brain size and intelligence,” Intelligence, 15 (1991), pp. 223–228.

Page 164 Example 1: “Trial and error,” Economist, October 31, 1998, pp. 87–88.

Page 169 Example 7: Quotation from a FairTest press release dated August 31, 1999, and appearing on the organization’s web page, www.fairtest.org. Most of the other information in this example and the Statistical Controversies feature comes from Chapter 2 of the National Science Foundation report Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 1998, NSF99-338, 1999. The table reports r2-values, calculated from correlations given on the College Board website, www.collegeboard.org. We found data on the most recent SAT scores at http://research.collegeboard.com/programs/sat/data/cb-seniors-2014/.

Page 175 Example 9: The deviations of NIST time from BIPM time are from the website of the NIST Time and Frequency Division, www.nist.gov/physlab/div847/.

Page 185 Exercise 8.27: The website for the Uniform Crime Reporting Program is www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr. The website for the National Crime Victimization Survey is www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245.

Page 186 Exercise 8.32: Recent best places for businesses and careers can be found at www.forbes.com/lists/.