Jared started collecting data for his long-term project. Today he picked certain baseball teams and located the birthdates of the current rosters. He also tracked down the birthdays of all US presidents to date. In conjunction with printing out this information, we discussed the various factors that can skew the results. We also talked about the very human instinct to see patterns where there are none. I can see that Jared has a healthy, skeptical approach to data analysis which is very important for constructing an unbiased picture of the world.