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Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics
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2026
14 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
Modern musician vocabularies: See how I extracted this data using GenAI, and how you can use it in class.original ↗
1 Jul 2026
An expected proportions chi-square, investigating Hollywood ethnic representation vs. USA IRL dataoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
27 May 2026
A McSweeney's Short Imagined Monologue, written from the viewpoint of correlation murdering causation.original ↗
16 Apr 2026
Andi Putt's infographics on autism prevalence demonstrate y-axis truncation and the surveillance effect.original ↗
24 Mar 2026
This example starts with a chi-square but ends with a lesson on how even well-written prompts can result in hallucinations.original ↗
20 Mar 2026
Use spicy, spicy peppers to explain scales of measurement and/or the difference between categorical and continuous data.original ↗
15 Mar 2026
2025
A good JAMA article that demonstrates how to appropriately share relative and absolute risks.original ↗
28 Nov 2025
19 Nov 2025
4 Nov 2025
Percentiles, bee swarm plots, Bureau of Labor Statistics data...so many lessons in one interactive chart.original ↗
25 Sept 2025
A quick, accessible lesson on paired t-tests, featuring summer activities that people over 45 (me!) don't like.original ↗
15 Jul 2025
Rouse, Russel, & Campbell (2025) is a curated list of Psi Chi journals that are perfect for Intro Stats.original ↗
9 Jul 2025
Does unusually heavy traffic at pizzerias near the Pentagon predict global military activity?original ↗
15 Jun 2025
6 Mar 2025
9 Feb 2025
Annual snow fall moderates the relationship between daily snow fall and the likelihood of canceling schooloriginal ↗
3 Feb 2025
Full Discussion Board Idea #1: Repurposing gently-used, second-hand data during times of crisisoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025
2024
An interactive that gets your students thinking about medians, percentiles, and their own sleeping habits.original ↗
13 Nov 2024
Uncrustables consumption rates by NFL teams 1) do not vary by league, 2) do not correlate with 2023 winsoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2024
12 Sept 2024
Statistical thinking: What data would you need to collect to disprove the predictive power of astrological signs?original ↗
15 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024
11 May 2024
8 Feb 2024
2023
Blatant self-promotion: My textbook publisher is now accepting requests for exam copies of my textbook!!original ↗
29 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023
6 Sept 2023
The Unstoppable Pop of Taylor Swift: Data visualizations, variable operationalization, and DATA DATA DATAoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
"Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them" from Our World in Dataoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2023
9 May 2023
1 May 2023
12 Apr 2023
26 Mar 2023
Are short, bitter people actually more likely to be psychopaths? Start with the click bait, end with the science.original ↗
19 Mar 2023
Reading a statistical table is like reading those BAL tables your Uni passes out during Orientation Week.original ↗
7 Mar 2023
Using data about antidepressant efficacy to illustrate Cohen's d, demonstrate why you need a control group, talk about interactions.original ↗
16 Feb 2023