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Opening Day Activity for AP Statistics: Hiring Discrimination I have tried many different opening day activities for this course: Smelling Parkinson's, Distracted Driving, Crazy in Love, Find Someone, Desmos Scavenger Hunt, etc. But I wanted something new... so off to Google I went. I found that Sarah Carter ( mathequalslove ) does this activity for her Day 1 AP Stats class. And since she's awesome, I figured I'd try it too!  It is an activity that can be found in The Practice of Statistics , which IMHO, is a fantastic textbook. I like that it did not need to be modified very much in order to fit as course opener. I did tweak this a little, however. I wanted to make sure to start from the beginning of the class with the State/Plan/Do/Conclude format. I also like the fact that I will be able to bring this up later in the class for some sort of inference procedure (not there yet). I love giving students back work they completed on Day 1 and watching them realize how much they