Introductions

• What 418 is about.
• goals of course
• scope
• homepage: http://love.psy.utexas.edu/
• syllabus
• boot camp
• What I am about.

How to make sense of numbers and test ideas

• you can be a sophisticated consumer of data,
  or you can be everyone else.

Regression to the Mean

• Sports
• Music
• Financial Markets
• Fighter Pilots
• Other Examples?
• some more examples

The Experiment!

• ask nature a question
• controlled observation
• statistical analysis
• stupid questions get stupid answers