This is a very brief example to spice up the measures of central tendency lecture. There is a game show in Germany, and one of the rounds of the game show is performing a perfect median split on food. OF COURSE, IT IS A BAVARIAN HOT PRETZEL. The "splitting championship" game is part of a larger video game. Here is the YouTube version and here is the Reddit version, with more deets on the game show. To be clear, we aren't talking about eye-balling here. The median split is an exact split by weight. Just as a statistical median split is an exact splitting of a data set. Here is a more exact screen grab:  ALSO: Because I love a good internet rabbit hole, the Reddit source I found actually goes into detail about the German game show. Have fun. 

Hey, all- Here is today's (2.8.24) presentation  about working more statistics into your social psychology course. I'm mostly posting this for the folks who went to the conference because I told them I would, but feel free to use this advice to add some novel stats examples to your social psychology classes.

Hey!  I'm giving a keynote at the February annual teaching pre-conference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference. It's all about social psychology stats example. Like this one! This one demonstrates social comparison theory without ever saying social comparison theory. YouGov published data  ( here is the full data source ) that asked participants to rate their own, close-other, and far-others on several factors related to modern life (see below). In doing so, they unknowingly trigger social comparison theory, and in particular, downward social comparison. TL;DR: We know ourselves and how well we are doing compared to other people. And people are motivated to feel good about themselves.     https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/48400-americans-compare-own-outlook-with-country-poll These findings smack of downward social comparison, right? Instead of having a specific target we are comparing ourself to, like a co-worker or a neighbor,...