Assignment: 9/7/21 Feynman's first principle

AP BIOLOGY-A
2021-08-27T17:07:43Z

Due: Sep 7, 2021 by 11:59pm

"The first principle must be to not fool yourself....and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman, Physicist

Welcome to AP Biology. We'll start our year focusing on how we decide when a pattern in nature is a real pattern vs. a random coincidence. This is a problem in all sciences and is made worse by the fact that we are born with mental programming that makes us find patterns everywhere, even when a true pattern doesn't exist (faces in clouds, etc).

First, we will collect data to test the commonly held view that when flipping a coin it is equally likely to land with the heads side up as the tails side up.

Second, we will examine data to determine where a randomness stops and a pattern begins. Download the following sheet and open in Kami so that you can complete your response directly onto the electronic version. When you finish your response please submit it to this assignment. Find the tampered coin.

The power point I will use this week.

"The first principle must be to not fool yourself....and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman, Physicist

Welcome to AP Biology. We'll start our year focusing on how we decide when a pattern in nature is a real pattern vs. a random coincidence. This is a problem in all sciences and is made worse by the fact that we are born with mental programming that makes us find patterns everywhere, even when a true pattern doesn't exist (faces in clouds, etc).

First, we will collect data to test the commonly held view that when flipping a coin it is equally likely to land with the heads side up as the tails side up.

Second, we will examine data to determine where a randomness stops and a pattern begins. Download the following sheet and open in Kami so that you can complete your response directly onto the electronic version. When you finish your response please submit it to this assignment. Find the tampered coin.

The power point I will use this week.