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  • Jane’s case

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    Jane is concerned that she could have prevented herself from getting an autoimmune disease. (a) What are some risk factors for development of autoimmune diseases in general? (b) Looking at these risk factors, could Jane have done anything to prevent the development of her disease? Why or why not?

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  • Time spent in the examination rooms

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    One particular morning, the length of time spent in the examination rooms is recorded for each patient seen by each physician at an orthopedic clinic.
    Time in Examination Rooms (minutes)
    Physician 1 Physician 2 Physician 3 Physician 4
    33 34 18 27
    25 34 32 30
    25 29 30 31
    32 33 25 25
    27 41 32 34
    36 32 30 32
    20 25 43
    28
    Fill in the missing data. (Round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 3 decimal places.)
    Treatment Mean n Std. Dev
    Physician 1
    Physician 2
    Physician 3
    Physician 4
    Total
    One-Factor ANOVA
    Source SS df MS F p-value
      Treatment
      Error
      Total
    (a) Based on the given hypothesis, choose the correct option.
    H0: ?1 = ?2 = ?3 = ?4
    H1: Not all the means are equal.
    ? = 0.05
    Reject null hypothesis if F < 3.01
    Reject null hypothesis if F > 3.01
    (b) Calculate the F for one factor. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
      F for one factor is
    (c) “On the basis of the above findings, we reject the null hypothesis”. Is the statement true?
    Yes
    No
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  • MINICASE: Old Alfred Road

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    Old Alfred Road, who is well-known to drivers on the MaineTurnpike, has reached his seventieth birthday and is ready toretire. Mr. Road has no formal training in finance but has savedhis money and invested carefully.
    Mr Road owns his home-the mortgage is paid off-and dose not want tomove.He is a widower,and he wants to bequeath the house and anyremaining assets to his daughter.

    He has accumulated savings of $180,000, conservatively invested.The investments are yielding 9 percent interest. Mr. Road also has$12,000 in a savings account at 5 percent interest. He wants tokeep the savings account intact for unexpected expenses oremergencies.

    Mr. Road’s basic living expenses now average about $1,500 permonth, and he plans to spend $500 per month on travel and hobbies.To maintain this planned standard of living, he will have to relyon his investment portfolio. The interest from the portfolio is$16,200 per year (9 percent of $180,000), or $1,350 per month.

    Mr. Road will also receive $750 per month in social securitypayments for the rest of his life. These payments are indexed forinflation. That is, they will be automatically increased inproportion to changes in the consumer price index.

    Mr. Road’s main concern is with inflation. The inflation rate hasbeen below 3 percent recently, but a 3 percent rate is unusuallylow by historical standards. His social security payments willincrease with inflation, but the interest on his investmentportfolio will not.

    What advice do you have for Mr. Road? Can he safely spend all theinterest from his investment portfolio? How much could he withdrawat year-end from that portfolio if he wants to keep its real valueintact?

    Suppose Mr. Road will live for 20 more years and is willing to useup all of his investment portfolio over that period. He also wantshis monthly spending to increase along with inflation over thatperiod. In other words, he wants his monthly spending to stay thesame in real terms. How much can he afford to spend per month?
    Assume that the investment portfolio continues to yield a 9 percentrate of return and that the inflation rate will be 4 percent.

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  • THE AGE OF STUPID REVIEW

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    FILM: “THE AGE OF STUPID” (impacts of climate change, catastrophic change). A futuristic documentary – drama – animation hybrid film.  This film should make you think about policy and the environment on both domestic and international scales. What should be the international role of the US, in terms of energy and the environment?  Think about “foreign policy”

    This film is a futuristic look at climate change, and how “we” could have saved ourselves.  The film uses a variety of actual and recent footage, including some interview material, to make some points.

    Are we not paying attention? If not, why not? Feel free to post any good links to this film. *Relate what you viewed to our current political discussions, and consider… “

    Do we need to curb global warming?” What must we and political officials do?  What are the impediments to action / change?

    Have you heard about the collapse of much the enormous Antarctic ice sheets, and the serious implications? Happened in the late spring of 2014?  Check the news.

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  • Ancient Aliens Built the Pyramids: A Skeptical Analysis

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    Ancient Alien proponents make a variety of extraordinary claims suggesting that extraterrestrial alien beings have been visiting Earth and directing human cultural and biological evolution for millennia. One such extraordinary claim is that ancient extraterrestrial aliens built the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt.

    • Briefly discuss in 3-5 sentences the terrestrial, down-to-earth counterarguments to the following extraordinary claims:
    1. Claim: The sandstone, limestone, and granite blocks used to built the Great Pyramid were too heavy for the Egyptians to move by conventional methods and could only have been moved using ancient alien anti-gravity technology.
    2. Claim: Ancient aliens used laser technology to cut the perfectly smooth stone blocks used to build the pyramids, since the ancient Egyptians possessed no method to make such precise cuts.
    3. The ancient Egyptian stone quarries at Aswan contain a massive unfinished obelisk that was being cut from the bedrock. Near the completion of the process, the huge monument developed cracks and was abandoned in place. Explain how this incomplete obelisk provides strong evidence against the claim that Ancient Aliens built the Great Pyramid.
    4. The logical fallacy of Personal Incredulity is committed when an individual rejects an explanation because he or she personally finds it hard to believe, often because the explanation may be complex and difficult to understand, may be viewed as incomplete, or may conflict with the individual’s worldview. Discuss how personal incredulity plays a role in Ancient Alien proponents rejecting the overwhelming evidence that ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid.
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  • A Skeptical Analysis on Alien Abduction

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    A Skeptical Analysis on Alien Abduction

    1. Explain how (hypnagogic and hypnopompic) sleep paralysis and accompanying hallucinations contribute to “abductees” believing they have been kidnapped by aliens.
    1. Folklore in many cultures claim that sleep paralysis is caused by a demon, incubus, succubus, hag, witch, or ghost sitting on the sleeper’s chest. Explain how the existence of this folklore is strong evidence against alien abduction.
    1. Explain why hypnosis is not a reliable technique to recover memories of abduction by aliens (or anything else).
    1. Explain how the great distances to other stars and their planets is good evidence against Earth being visited by extraterrestrials.
    1. Many abductees claim to have given birth to human/alien hybrid babies. Carl Sagan notes that a human being would have a far better chance of reproducing with a petunia (flower) than an extraterrestrial from another planet. Explain what Sagan means.
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  • Skeptical Analysis on UFOs, Alien Abduction & Ancient Astronauts

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    UFOs, Alien Abduction & Ancient Astronauts

    WATCH

    National Geographic: Is It Real?

    • “UFOs,” Season 1, Episode 2

    Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

    • “Alien Abduction,” Season 1, Episode 3

    Ancient Aliens Debunked

    READ

    From The Skeptic’s :

    From the course website:

    How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age

    • Chapter 7: “Case Studies in the Extraordinary” UFO Abductions, Ancient Aliens, Stephenville Lights, The Roswell Incident (234-248)

    WRITE

    Put on your skeptics hat, write at least one 4-5 sentence paragraph in response to each prompt and upload to the appropriate folder on turnitin.com:

    UFOs: A Skeptical Analysis

    1. UFO enthusiasts offer “proof” that Earth is being visited by extraterrestrial alien beings in interstellar spacecraft. Briefly discuss the terrestrial, down-to-earth explanations for the following “evidence.”
    1. Eyewitness sightings, photographs or videos of UFOs, such as the 2004 infrared video footage taken by the Mexican Air Force of a group of UFOs over the Gulf of Mexico.
    1. Physical evidence of UFOs, such as crash debris found near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 and rings in grass claimed to be UFO landing sites.
    1. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Offer at least one example of compelling evidence you would demand in order to take seriously the claim Earth is being visited by extraterrestrial alien beings in interstellar spacecraft? Explain how your example(s) would be considered strong evidence of visitation by extraterrestrials.
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  • William Blake and Child Labor

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    The essay assignment for this week is to compose a paper of at least 750 words in which you offer your interpretation of a key theme in one of the assigned poems.

    You should open your essay with an introductory paragraph that presents your poem as well as its author. Information about the poet and the social context surrounding the writing of the poem can be found in your textbook. End your introduction with a thesis statement that identifies and interprets a key theme of the poem.
    Each paragraph following the introduction should present specific aspects of the poem that help to illustrate and support your thesis. Make sure to quote and analyze specific lines that support your argument.
    Include a concluding paragraph at the end that summarizes the main points of the paper and explains the significance of the thesis.

    The chimney sweeper by Blake, W. (2013).

    3 pages

    MLA 1 Reference

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  • Do objective moral truths exists

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    Question:

    Do objective moral truths exists?

    Give 1 or 2 reasons objective moral truths exist/don’t exist

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