This blog post was inspired by the brilliant Leslie Berntsen. Her ACT 2021 presentation,  " I'm not a therapist: Mental health education and advocacy for non-clinicians," was about teaching and sharing sound practices in mental health care when you, yourself, are not a mental-health-care-type-psychologist.  Anyway, she had this really great idea about sharing user/trends/etc. data from the Crisis Text Line  (CTL) with students. CTL is a text-based mental health crisis hotline. It is staffed 24/7. I include it on my syllabus as a resource for my struggling students because, unlike my uni's very hard-working counseling center, CTL is always available.  https://www.crisistextline.org/ Why share data from CTL in your stats class? Because you can use it to a) teach a bit of stats, b) introduce students who need this resource to the resource, c) introduce potential volunteers to the service. Here are my ideas for how you could use this data in class. 1. Data visuali...

As I write this blog post, Francis Haugen testifies on Capitol Hill and sheds light on some of Facebook's shady practices. TL;DR- Facebook realizes that its practices are support terrorism.  This led to a public relations blitz from Facebook, including Monika Bickert, who appeared on CNN . Of particular relevance is repeated reference made to an Instagram survey of 40 teens ( here is the documentation I was able to find ). I saw this tweet from Asha Rangappa Reaction about one of those interviews: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1445487820580081674 LOL I had to listen to this twice to make sure I didn’t mishear: This @Facebook exec repeatedly refers to a “survey” of FORTY teen Insta users— as in 4-0 — to support her assertion that the “majority” of teens have a great experience on the platform. For real. Listen to it https://t.co/Ye7ocWcnzG — Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) October 5, 2021 This example packs a lot of punch. It is a good one for the youths because it is ...

Maybe this is the sort of thing you will like. I guarantee you, it is spook-tacular.   https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gu4VYsYTNJ28RtBf6cNp1xszjo-bfItSHAp-C0PiEbY/edit?usp=sharing