Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics
MOAR GULL DATA!! Also, an actual independent t test and a conceptual factorial ANOVA.
Using GenAI to generate teachable data sets (here, an independent t test)
Young adult suicide is down, as demonstrated by regression.
Statsplanations from Sketchplanations
One small, psychological ANOVA example you can use in class.
A McSweeney's Short Imagined Monologue, written from the viewpoint of correlation murdering causation.
Mr. Beast gave us a real-life bee swarm plot.
All of my favorite stats discussion topics in one place. Boom.
Andi Putt's infographics on autism prevalence demonstrate y-axis truncation and the surveillance effect.
This example starts with a chi-square but ends with a lesson on how even well-written prompts can result in hallucinations.
Use spicy, spicy peppers to explain scales of measurement and/or the difference between categorical and continuous data.
A good JAMA article that demonstrates how to appropriately share relative and absolute risks.
Z scores suggest that British parlimentarians are using ChatGPT to write speeches.
Does Taylor Swift violate the assumption of independence?
A memorable example of Goodhart's Law for all of my psychometric/assessment instructors.
Percentiles, bee swarm plots, Bureau of Labor Statistics data...so many lessons in one interactive chart.
Teaspoons, Tablespoons, and a new analogy for family-wise error.
A joint Research Methods/Statistics blog post with Beth Morling
A quick, accessible lesson on paired t-tests, featuring summer activities that people over 45 (me!) don't like.
Rouse, Russel, & Campbell (2025) is a curated list of Psi Chi journals that are perfect for Intro Stats.
UFO sightings peak on the Fourth of July. That's all.
Rank choice voting, explained by CNN using ice cream
Does unusually heavy traffic at pizzerias near the Pentagon predict global military activity?
An ode to Western Pennsylvania, in chi-square form
Full Discussion Board Idea #3: Deer-related car accidents by state.
PWA data visualizations on YouTube
Dima Yarovinsky's "I Agree": Data visualization meets installation art piece.
Leo DiCaprio Romantic Age Gap Data: UPDATE
A wee bit of Positive Psychology data related to money and death.
Full Discussion Board Idea #2: Trends in love songs, as illustrated by The Pudding
r/DataIsUgly
Annual snow fall moderates the relationship between daily snow fall and the likelihood of canceling school
Absolute vs. relative risk reporting: Lake effect snow edition
Full Discussion Board Idea #1: Repurposing gently-used, second-hand data during times of crisis
Data can be equity: Merging of Major League Baseball and Negro League Baseball data.
Truncated Y-axis, but with female celebrities.
Modal religions by county in the U.S.
An interactive that gets your students thinking about medians, percentiles, and their own sleeping habits.
Uncrustables consumption rates by NFL teams 1) do not vary by league, 2) do not correlate with 2023 wins
Subways! Murder! Absolute vs. relative risk!