I am avoiding grading and trying to make this here blog more usable, so I am consolidating all of my funny scale examples into one location. Feast your eyes on this! https://earther.com/we-finally-know-what-hot-as-balls-really-means-1825713726 http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html http://notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2018/01/this-is-very-silly-example-for.html

I've been using this example in class for a few years but never got around to blogging about it until now. It seems that the first chapter of every statistics class provides a boring explanation of what a variable is, and examples of variables, and operationalizing variables, and quantifying the abstract for the purposes of conducting statistical analyses. I try to make that boring topic funnier and applicable to real life via this post entitled "Boyfriend doesn't have ebola. Probably." from Allie Brosh, editor of Hyperbole and a Half . In this posting, she rips apart the good old FACES scale after a trip with her boyfriend to the ER.