People I love very much live in Florida. My very favorite academic conference is held in Florida. I want Florida to flatten the curve. But Florida is flattening the curve. Believe me when I say that I'm not trying to dunk on Florida, but Florida has provided me with prime material for statistics teaching. Timely material that illustrates weaponized data. Some examples are more straightforward, like median and poor data visualization. Others illustrate a theme that I cover in my own stats class, a theme that we should all be discussing in our stats class: Data must be very, very powerful if so many large organizations work so hard to discredit it, manipulate it, and fire people who won't. You should also point out to your students that organizations working so hard to discredit are typically straightforward descriptive data, not graduate-level data analysis.  1. Measures of Central Tendency As of June 23, the median age of people newly diagnosed with COVID-19 in Florida dropped ...