Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

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!

Turn your data into a GIF with Google

Paris Olympics 2024: I'm here for the dank memes