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The document discusses various measurable aspects of life, including success, love, teenage violence behavior, longevity, and quality of life. It highlights the potential link between soft drink consumption and violence, as well as the positive impact of celebrating birthdays on longevity. The course aims to teach essential statistical concepts with a focus on applying knowledge to solve real-world scientific problems.

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The document discusses various measurable aspects of life, including success, love, teenage violence behavior, longevity, and quality of life. It highlights the potential link between soft drink consumption and violence, as well as the positive impact of celebrating birthdays on longevity. The course aims to teach essential statistical concepts with a focus on applying knowledge to solve real-world scientific problems.

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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!

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