Simple Ideas – Great Discovery
• Science reveals perfect age for marriage?!
Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/science-reveals-perfect-age-for-marriage-2015-7
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What else can be measured?
• Success?
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What else can be measured?
Source: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/1141984
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What else can be measured?
Source: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/dont-measure-mans-success-how-high-climbs-george-patton.html
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What else can be measured?
• Success?
• Love?
• Teenage violence behavior?
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What else can be measured?
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2011/11/02/is-soda-a-smoking-gun-for-teen-violence-or-just-statistical-illiteracy/#2715e4857a0b5891fb915209
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Teenage violence behavior
• There was a significant and strong association
between soft drinks and violence.
• There may be a direct cause-and-effect
relationship, perhaps due to the sugar or caffeine
content of soft drinks;
• or there may be other factors, unaccounted for in
our analyses, that cause both high soft drink
consumption and aggression.
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What else can be measured?
• Success?
• Love?
• Teenage violence behavior?
• Longevity?
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What else can be measured?
• Celebration of birthdays have been proved to be a healthy
activity directly related longevity.
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What else can be measured?
• Success?
• Love?
• Teenage violence behavior?
• Longevity?
• Quality of Life?
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Approach of this course
• This course is not like any regular mathematics or statistics
course
• We will learn only the very essential parts of the topics
• More emphasis is on applying the knowledge to solve scientific
problems
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• We expect you to be able to model some natural phenomena
and real life problems systematically, logically with common
sense in a quantitative manner.
• Hope you will find the materials in this course useful in the
future!
• Good luck in this course!