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Artificial Intelligence- Veronica Nocella

Posted by Veronica Nocella in Science And Society - Best - E on

Science: My 5 minutes of Science focuses on the specific aspects of AI that scientists focus on, like human biology and neurology, & what is more significant in the further advancement of AI research. I also focus on Cybernetics, and how creating artificial simulations of animals was essentially the genesis of AI research

Society: I talk about the pros and cons of AI advancement; AI robots can help in natural disaster relief and in medicine, can lead to the creation of more efficient prosthetic limbs, and can eventually solve problems as large as climate change.

Self: Personally, I researched Artificial Intelligence because I used to be incredibly afraid of it. The idea of robots having human emotion and compassion made me immediately think we could be taken over by robots; I was afraid of creating something smarter than us. However, after I did further research, I realized how much AI robots could actually help us further develop our society for the better. 




​https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/presentation/d/1kJWwT7zcZCfIEn8aPS9tl5dOWVsT2MRCfsipPvuOKQo/edit?usp=sharing

How to Lie with Statistics Podcast 2

Posted by Gina Sorgentoni in Statistics - Miles - C on
For this podcast we reviewed chapters 6 and 7, going over the overall idea of each, then discussing and reacting to the examples in both chapters. We talked a lot about our discomfort with some of the examples, and with the realization that we need to think deeply about everything because there is a chance that it could be a lie. 
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Q4 Math Bm (Podcast #1) Ilker, Jamie and Brian

Posted by Ilker Erkut in Statistics - Miles - B on
In Jamie, Brian and my first Podcast we introduced the book.  This first podcast proved to be very difficult because it caused a lot thinking.  Our first podcast is longer than the rest will be and this is because we were introducing the book.  This podcast hits on all points in the first three chapters.  The first three chapters are the base of the book and so we gave more detailed information in this podcast.  We all talked a lot and kept the conversation going.  We created good questions to keep the conversation going till the end.  

How To Lie With Statistics

Posted by Amanda Thieu in Statistics - Miles - C on
  • Group members present during the discussion: Amanda, Adowa, Sattera, Nashay 
  • What your club discussed: Whether the methods in the book manipulate people 
  • How you discussed it: We brought up different examples and what we found deceving. 
  • Any points of conflict/disagreement in discussion: The main conflict is that we all feel like there are certain samples that are not considered as sufficient samples to derive a conclusion from. 
  • Questions that came up as a result of the discussion: How did you guys feel about the book so far? etc. 

How To Lie with Statistics Podcast 1-Tiarra & Lindsey

Posted by Lindsey Jones in Statistics - Miles - B on
In our first installation of HTLWS, we cover chapters 1-4. We were both present and ready with our own thoughts and opinions on the subjects within these chapters. It's very long in comparison to some others, but we wanted to go in deph about the topics and (hopefully) not miss a single thing. Tiarra and I both listened to each other thoroughly and even challenged one another on these beliefs. The format in which we disect the book is by (obviously) reading the chapter, taking notes, and then coming up with our own questions to bring to the discussion. Please appreciate it.
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Podcast 2 // Bella, Andrew, Kristina, Kevin

Posted by Isabella Beato in Statistics - Miles - B on
​​All of our group members were present for this podcast. For this podcast we talked about the next four chapters of the book, chapters 4 through 8. Basically these chapters talked about misleading graphs and how people accomplish making these graphs. We also talked about an article Mr. Miles asked us to read. We kept with our same plan by writing everything out first then recording. Again we didn't have any conflict or disagreement. No questions came up this time around. Below are the graphs we referenced. 

Here is the article. 
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Podcast #2 : Joie, Espi, Sydne and Cameron

Posted by Joie Nearn in Statistics - Miles - B on
​Our group discussed the chapters 4-7. During these chapters we got a first hand look on the saying "How To Lie with Statistics". We learned that it is all about showing what you want and not showing all of your collected data. In chapter 5, it was quoted,"there is terror behind numbers." The point we got from that was that you can cut a graph off and withhold certain data to the audience at any point and it wouldn't be considered as changing the data, but showing what we want.