What do potatoes and tooth lead have in common?
What do they have in common with instrumental analysis?
How do the statistics for potatoes and tooth lead vary and intersect with ethics of data reporting and public debate.
For the latter look at Needleman’s 1979 data; compare that to Needleman’s Cumulative % Tooth lead as one exercise (compute estimated resolution of populations and consider how fortunate as Analytic Chemists we can ‘know’ with more certainty) followed by reading about ethics in science including discourse and discuss Ernhardt’s article and Needleman’s response.
