I already knew that Morton Ann Gernsbacher was a genius ( see her excellent, open stats classes that use spreadsheets ). So you can imagine how pleased I was to meet her at APS2022. While her talk and message were great, I am here to share one of her presentation resources: Photofunia. This website creates images that contain your text and words, and I'm pretty amused. I think this could be a low-key way to draw attention to commonly made mistakes and big take-home messages. They work in a Powerpoint but are more attention-grabbing than just using a larger font size or bolding your text.

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

Stick with me here. I think this would be a great warm-up activity early in the semester. My boy Ace had a research hypothesis, operationalized his research, tried to collect data points using several test subjects, and measured his outcomes. Here is the original interview from  Draft Diamonds  and  Newsweek's story . 1) How did he operationalize his hypothesis? What was his IV? DV? 2) Did he use proper APA headers? Should APA style require the publication of pictures of crying researchers if their findings don't replicate? 3) This data could be analyzed using a repeated measure ANOVA. He had various members of his family throw a football as different PSIs and he measured how far the ball traveled and calculated mean for three attempts at each PSI. 4) His only participants were his mom, dad, and sister. So, this study is probably underpowered. 5) In this video from NBC news , Ace's dad describes how they came up with the research idea. Ace i...

As a research-parent-nerd joke before Christmas, six doctors swallowed Lego heads and recorded how long it took to pass the Lego heads. Why? As to inform parents about the lack of danger associated with your kid swallowing a tiny toy.  I encourage you to use it as a class example because it is short, it describes its research methodology very clearly, using a within-subject design, has a couple of means, standard deviations, and even a correlation. TL;DR: https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/dont-forget-the-lego/ In greater detail: Note the use of a within subject design. They also operationalized their DV via the SHAT (Stool Hardness and Transit) scale. *Yeah. So here is the Bristol Stool Chart  mentioned in the above excerpt. Please don't click on the link if your are eating or have a sensitive stomach. Research outcomes, including mean and standard deviations: An example of a non-significant correlation, with the SHAT score on the y-axi...

They are bar graphs. And they are funny.

We already knew that model/cookbook author  Chrissy Teigen is really good at Twitter. We recently learned that, delightfully, she is also good at spotting misrepresented statistics. This came to light when she asked for help understanding the whole Jacob Wohl Debacle . She asked her Twitter followers for a clear, quick explanation of the whole deal. She didn't even @ Jacob, but Jacob got snippy and replied back with Google Trends data (how have I not blogged about Google Trends yet?) in an attempt to use data, beautiful data, in order to own Chrissy. And Chrissy was having none of it.  Yes, her sweet burn is an inspiration to us all, but it also a good demonstration of that fact that the exact same data can be interpreted in two different ways. And jerks lie with data, too, and can lie with actual, truthful data. And Chrissy knows her way around a chart.

I've shared these on my Twitter feed, and in a previous blog post dedicated to stats funnies. However,  I decided it would be useful to have a dedicated, occasionally updated blog post devoted to Twitter Statistics Comedy Gold. How to use in class? If your students get the joke, they get a stats concept. *Aside: I know I could have embedded these Tweets, but I decided to make my life easier by using screenshots. How NOT to write a response option.  Real life inter-rater reliability Scale Development Alright, technically not Twitter, but I am thrilled to make an exception for this clever, clever costume: This whole thread is awesome...https://twitter.com/EmpiricalDave/status/1067941351478710272 Randomness is tricky! And not random! ...