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2023

Use recent gel nail:cancer headlines to discuss research designoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2023
Bad credit scores as a predictor of dementiaoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2023
Suicide hotline efficacy data: Assessment, descriptive data, t-tests, correlation, regression examples aboundoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2023

2022

Our World in Data's deep dive into human height. Examples abound.original ↗
26 Dec 2022
Caffeine and Calories: An example of a non-linear relationshiporiginal ↗
14 Dec 2022
The Pudding's Words Against Strangers: A way to break up your z-score lecture.original ↗
11 Dec 2022
YEET!, or why you should always check your scatter plotoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2022
chartr's "Speed or Accuracy? It's hard to do both in fast food drive-thrus"original ↗
30 Nov 2022
Between and within group variance, explained with religion, politics, and climate change.original ↗
27 Nov 2022
YouGov America's Thanksgiving-themed chi-square examplesoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2022
Organizations sharing data in a way that is very accessibleoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2022
History of Data Science's Regression Gameoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2022
Stats nerd gift listoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2022
Dirty Data: Share the data in a way that is functionally inaccessibleoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2022
Assessing an intervention: A quick exercise for your classes, specialized to your own university.original ↗
18 Sept 2022
Missing data leads to conspiracy theoryoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2022
Bella the Waitress: A fun hypothesis testing example.original ↗
30 Aug 2022
How to investigate click-bait survey claimsoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2022
Helping your students with craptopsoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2022
My Syllabi For Stats for Fall 2022original ↗
14 Aug 2022
Leo DeCaprio, the ages of his girlfriends: Regression in real life.original ↗
13 Aug 2022
Another recent publication with lots of Psych Stats-friendly data analysisoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
A recent research article that ACTUALLY USES ANALYSES WE TEACH IN INTRO STATSoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2022
Chi-square and interaction via TV dataoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2022
Data collection via wearable technologyoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2022
Photofuniaoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2022
An interactive description of scientific replicationoriginal ↗
3 May 2022
AI and COVID: A quick example of garbage in, garbage outoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2022
New STP resources for teaching statistical reasoning in Intro Psychoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2022
Eyeball Regression game by Sophie Hilloriginal ↗
1 Mar 2022
Bad data viz: The White House and a rogue y-axisoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2022
Why measures of variability matter: Average age of death in The Olden Daysoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2022
Correlation example: Taco Bell and mortality by state...don't run for the border!original ↗
22 Jan 2022
Adam Ruben's How to Read a Scientific Paperoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2022
JAMA visual abstracts: A great way to illustrate basic inferential testsoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2022

2021

Use this caffeine study to teach repeated measure design, ANOVA, etc.original ↗
16 Dec 2021
Marc Rummy/Flowingdata illustration of base rate fallacy as it applies to breakthrough infectionsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2021
Chi-square example involving American's beliefs about vampires. Seriously.original ↗
12 Dec 2021
OmniCalculator statistics calculator collectionoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2021
Descriptive data example (and more) from Crisis Text Hotlineoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2021
How to unsuccessfully defend your brand using crap data: A primeroriginal ↗
7 Oct 2021
Halloween-related stats humor, presented via Google Slidesoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2021
That Amazon review for the Pure Drink water bowloriginal ↗
22 Aug 2021
Three minutes example of within-subject design, applied research, and ecological validity. Also, you could use it as an excuse to play German club music before class?original ↗
15 Aug 2021
Resources for creating an accessible Stats classoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2021
Google Dataset search engineoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2021
Interpreting effect sizes: An Olympic-sized metaphororiginal ↗
28 Jun 2021
Women's pockets are crap: An empirical investigationoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2021
Teaching your students about bias in statisticsoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2021
My interview on the Psych Sessions podcastoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2021
9% of Americans think they could beat a crocodile in a fight. What?original ↗
3 Jun 2021
The Society for the Teaching of Psychology: Stats Resourcesoriginal ↗
15 May 2021
Teaching of Statistics in Psychology: Keynote Addressoriginal ↗
5 May 2021
Dr. Morton Anne Gernsbacher's online Intro to Stats classoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2021
Explaining log v. linear data visualization, using customizable COVID data chartsoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2021
Seven mini-stats lessons, crammed into nine minutes.original ↗
20 Mar 2021
Statsystem Stat Memesoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2021
One sample t-tests, puppies, real data.original ↗
20 Feb 2021
Conceptual ANOVA example using COVID treatment dataoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2021
Ritchie and Weinersmith, explaining what is wrong with science.original ↗
15 Feb 2021
Flowingdata's Car Costs vs. Emissions storyoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
SPSP 2021 Key Note Addressoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2021
Chi-square Test of Independence using CNN exit polling dataoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2021

2020

We should teach intro stats students about relative vs. absolute riskoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2020
Ways to use funny meme scales in your stats classesoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
Z-score example, as inspired my Sa-kiera's George Michael stanning.original ↗
6 Dec 2020
Pretty Stats Stock Imagesoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2020
Stats Arts and Crafts...Starts and Crafts?original ↗
17 Nov 2020
Mona Chalabi's 100 New Yorkers: Data artoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2020
Help your students understand effect sizes using voter behaviorsoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2020
All of my t-test stuff, but in a spreadsheet.original ↗
6 Oct 2020
Dr. Fauci, or Why Everyone Should Take a Research Methods Courseoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2020
The Economist: Election predictions, confidence intervals, and measures of central tedency.original ↗
8 Sept 2020
Mode example: What are the most common last names in every country?original ↗
1 Sept 2020
Daves know more Daves: A independent t-test example from Redditoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2020
"You're wrong about" podcast and data about human trafficingoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2020
Virtual dice and coin flips via Googleoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2020
Type I/II error in real life: The FDA and the search for an at-home COVID-19 testoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2020
CNN's "Science by press release"original ↗
30 Jul 2020
The only data set you'll ever need: Nathan's Hot Dog eating contests, 1908-2019original ↗
24 Jul 2020
NPR's The Pandemic Is Pushing Scientists To Rethink How They Read Research Papersoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2020
In-house restaurant dining is related to increases in COVID-19 cases: Illustrates correlation, regression, and good science reportingoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2020
Stand-alone stats lessons you can add to your class, easy-peasy.original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Florida, COVID-19: If data and stats weren't important, Florida wouldn't lie about them.original ↗
28 Jun 2020
Using Pew Research Center Race and Ethnicity data across your statistics curriculumoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2020
Kyne explaining statsoriginal ↗
9 Jun 2020
Sampling bias example via NASA, Pew Research Center, and Twitteroriginal ↗
29 May 2020
The Washington Post's "The coronavirus pandemic and loss of aircraft data are taking a toll on weather forecasting"original ↗
22 May 2020
Using the GroupMe App to encourage syncronous and asyncronous conversations with distant learnersoriginal ↗
18 May 2020
NYT's "Is It Safer to Visit a Coffee Shop or a Gym?"original ↗
7 May 2020
A quick NPR video describes random sampling in order to better understand the spread of COVID-19original ↗
29 Apr 2020
Online Day ?: Predicting the age of Dennis Quaid's hypothetical fifth wife.original ↗
27 Apr 2020
Online Day 7: Chi-Square Examplesoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2020
Online Day 6: One-way ANOVA exampleoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2020
Data distribution shapes via 1918 Flu Pandemic mortality distributionsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2020
Online Day 2: Using Mythbusters to review t-test research designsoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2020
Online Day 1: Ask your students to collect and analyze data from their FB friendsoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2020
PsiChiR: A new contest to help you and your students learn Roriginal ↗
6 Mar 2020
FREE STP Book: "For the love of teaching undergraduate statistics"original ↗
16 Feb 2020
Tabachnick and Fidel's Experimental Designs Using ANOVA: Freely and legally available onlineoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2020
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