Of the topics we have covered in this course, which topic is most directly applicable to you, your career, or your interests?  Why? Note: There is no right or wrong answer here – if you answer completely you’ll get the full points for this question. 

Consider a LEGO-building task. A builder takes individual LEGO bricks, and puts them together to create a structure.  For this specific task, the builder will be constructing a LEGO cowbell. a) If you were to automate this task, what is ONE part of the task that is a good candidate for automation? Why? b) If you were to automate this task, what is ONE part of the task that is a poor candidate for automation? Why? c) What level of automation (in general terms) would you recommend for this task? Why?

SENTENCES: Answer TRUE if correct (AP style, grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.), FALSE if incorrect. Ed Foonman decided to attend the University of Florida, and his advisers said they would help.

SENTENCES: Answer TRUE if correct (AP style, grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.), FALSE if incorrect. Its time to learn AP style.

People can generally read a display faster when a quantitative display is used. 

Medical decision making often includes physicians making “judgment calls” based on intuition during diagnoses.  According to the MABA-MABA list, humans should perform these tasks.

A hard news story (inverted pyramid) is composed of the lede, the body and the conclusion.

Of the topics we have covered in this course, which topic is most directly applicable to you, your career, or your interests?  Why?  (Note: There is no right or wrong answer here – if you answer completely you’ll get the full points for this question).  

EXTRA CREDIT: Who is quoted in the textbook as saying this about ledes: “The best day is one when I can write a lede that will cause a reader at his breakfast table next morning to spit up his coffee, clutch at his heart and shout, ‘My God, Martha, did you read this?’”

Dominique, a meteorologist, predicted precipitation for her hometown over the past year (365 days). Over the year, there was precipitation on 141 of the days.  Of those days, she predicted precipitation 129 times.  For the days in which there was no precipitation, she predicted precipitation 54 times.  a) What was Dominique’s hit rate, miss rate, false alarm rate, and correct rejection rate? b) Which value in part (a) is the most important for a meteorologist when predicting precipitation? c) Suggest one technique Dominique can use to improve her performance.