QUESTIONS for the WHOLE CHAPTER

1. What might be wrong with dividing by ``population of res- idents age 12 years or older" in the violent crime column of Table 1? What about dividing by households in the second column?

2. What do you think ``cancer cases per 100,000 people" means in the graph of Figure 1?

3. The baseball commissioner was tacitly advocating changing ``total home runs" to ``home runs per game". How might you criticize his statistics?