Individuals are the objects described by a set of data. Individuals may be people, but they may also be animals Relationship or things Between Variables A variable is any characteristic of an individual. a variable can take different values for different ndividuals The 1997 survey data set, for example, includes data about a sample of women The individuals described are the women
I. Racist Propositions Appiah distinguishes three importantly different ideas relevant to race and racism: Racialism: ...there are heritable characteristics, possessed by members of our species, that allow us to divide them into a small set of races, in such a way that all the members of these races share certain traits and tendencies with each other that they do not share with members of any other race. These traits and tendencies characteristic of a race constitute, on the racialist view, a sort of racial essence; and it is part of the content of racialism that the essential
How Should a Monopoly Price? So far a monopoly has been thought of as a firm which has to sell its product at the same price to every customer. This is uniform pricing. Can price-discrimination （差别定价 ）earn a monopoly higher profits?
