Despite the fact that Jared was still in a very positively charged mood after his IQ test, he very quickly settled down to tackle his project on birthday statistics. He's still sorting through the datasets he has collected, and today he (freehand) compiled a frequency table of the birthdays of the astronauts of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, and the birthdays of people at the school. In conjunction with this, we discussed the significance of homogenous datasets versus more scattered samples, and the various biases (mathematically speaking, not culturally speaking) that can creep into datasets and how crucial it is to keep track of external influences that may skew the data.