Homework 2: Introduction to Inference

Due date: Thursday April 17th at 11:59pm

Unless otherwise stated, assignments are to be done individually. You are welcome to work with others to master the principles and approaches used to solve the homework problems, but the work you turn in should be your own.

Poll Creation

Create a poll of your choice, centered around a topic of your choice that you are interested in learning more about, that your classmates will answer.

• The poll should be created using Google Forms.
• The poll should extract some type of quantitative data that can be analyzed further using Python.
• The poll should have THREE (3) questions, that are straightforward and easily interpretable by your classmates, centered along a central theme.

Suppose I want to learn more about caffeine consumption on campus – here is an example question I might choose to include in my poll:

• Question: How many cups of coffee do you drink daily?
• Answer choices: (A) 0, (B) 1, (C) 2, (D) 3, (E) 4, (F) 5+

Here is another example question, supposing I was interested in learning more about course loads amongst my peers:

• Question: How many units are you enrolled in right now?
• Answer choices: (Input Box Requiring Number)

NOTE: You are not to fill out other polls just yet, we will let you know when.

Submission:

• Fill out this Google sheet with a link to your poll.
• Additionally, put the link to your poll in your Gradescope submission in the indicated place (see below).

Notebook

Complete the homework 2 notebook. Please make a copy of the notebook to your Google Drive before starting!!

Submission:

• Follow the instructions in the notebook to submit a PDF of your notebook to Gradescope.