Exercise: Deadly doctors
Goal: demonstrate that extreme results are not necessarily out of the ordinary
Materials needed: two dice per person, sheets of paper labelled clearly 2 to 12
Time: 10 minutes
Exercise: Budget breakdown
Goal: demonstrate that numbers are easier to understand when broken down and put into context
Materials: printed sheets
Time: 5 minutes
Exercise: studying a scientific press release - diet soda and heart attacks
Goal: to show students a typical science press release
Time: 10 minutes
Materials: diet soda press release, teaching notes
Exercise: The checkerboard bias
Goal: to demonstrate how bias affects survey results
Materials: printed sheets: Checkerboard numbers
Time: 10 minutes
Exercise: studying a press release - man bags and back pain
Goal: to study the press release behind an article and see if the main points are supported
Time: 10 minutes
