1. Discuss any challenges with project assignment #2.

2. Discuss conflicts of interest in research.

3. Discuss normal distribution and standard scores.

4. Learn the following in Excel:

   • Calculations derived from the normal curve

   • z-scores, t-scores, etc.

5. Introduce reading material for next week's lab session.

The following assignment(s) is(are) associated with this week's lab.  The assignment(s) is(are) due at the start of next week's lab.

Read and/or review the material found at each of the following links:

Standard Scores & the Normal Distribution

From the textbook, pages 119-148.

Good basic site - http://glass.ed.asu.edu/stats/lesson3/

Great web based utilities for standard scores - http://psych.colorado.edu/~mcclella/java/zcalc.html

Good applied site - http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed230a2/notes/z1.htmlr

Good basic site - http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/maybe/maybe5.htm

Experimental Design (Readings for next week's lab)

Read Chapter 6 in your text on sampling distributions.

Non-technical Discussion of Experimental Design - http://www.sytsma.com/phad530/expdesig.html

Sportscience.com - http://www.sportsci.org/jour/0001/wghdesign.html

What is Science? (http://books.nap.edu/html/obas/)

Be prepared to participate in a discussion of this reading!