In our stats classes, we need MANY examples to convey both theories behind and the computation of statistics. These examples should be memorable. Sometimes, they can make our students laugh, and sometimes they can be couched in research. They should always make our students think. In this spirit, I've collected three small examples from the Pew Research Center's  Race and Ethnicity  archive (I hope to update with more examples as time permits). I don't know if any data collection firm is above reproach, but Pew Research is pretty close. They are non-partisan, they share their research methodology, and they ask hard questions about ethnicity and race. If you use these examples in class, I think that it is crucial to present them within context: They illustrate statistical concepts, and they also demonstrate outcomes of racism.   1. "Most Blacks say someone has acted suspicious of them or as if they weren't smart" Lessons: Racism, ANOVA theory: between-group dif...

Elahe Izadi, writing for The Washington Post, shared polling data from the 1960s. The data focused on public opinion about different aspects of the civil rights movement (March on Washington, freedom riders, etc.). The old data was used to draw parallels between the mixed support for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the mixed support for current civil rights protests, specifically, Black Lives Matter. Here is the  Washington  Post  story on the polling data, the civil rights movement, and Black Lives Matter. The story is the source of all the visualizations contained below. H ere is the original polling data . https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2016/04/2300-galluppoll1961-1024x983.jpg&w=1484 https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2016/04/2300-galluppoll1963-1024x528.jpg&w=1484 I think this is timely data. And...