We picked up on collecting data for Jared's project. While doing so, we discussed various pitfalls associated with data collection. One thing to bear in mind is people's innate bias. When tackling a self-contained sample such as MLB teams, there is no danger of succumbing to it (a finite number of teams), but when having to pick and choose a sample from a population, one might target particular sample subsets. Another issue is cherrypicking data to suit your desired outcome. In fact, we are going to re-visit Malcolm Gladwell's (the author of 'Outliers', the book that has fascinated Jared for a while now and from which the first chapter is the basis for Jared's study) initial study on Canadian hockey teams to ensure that he did not choose data from a team that fulfilled his purposes.