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\subsection{Synchronization of lecturediscussions  and lab activities} lab}  \label{sec:synchronicity}  In previous editions of AST 208, the lecture and lab operated more or less independently. The revisions to the lab (\S~\ref{sec:encounters-with-data}), especially the use of ``real'' data, demand a more rigorous treatment of statistics, however, and a tighter integration of the course lectures with the lab activitiesis necessary. To do this, we now devote the first half of the course lectures into a more general discussion of astronomy and statistics. As motivation, we introduce these concepts in the context of detecting exoplanets; this ties the introductory material to the treatment of planetary science in the latter half of the course.