Have you ever heard of the theory that there are multiple people worldwide thinking about the same novel thing at the same time? It is the multiple discovery hypothesis of invention . Like, multiple great minds around the world were working on calculus at the same time. Well, I think a bunch of super-duper psychology professors were all thinking about scale memes and pedagogy at the same time. Clearly, this is just as impressive as calculus. Who were some of these great minds? 1) Dr.  Molly Metz maintains a curated list of hilarious "How you doing?" scales.  2) Dr. Esther Lindenström posted about using these scales as student check-ins. 3) I was working on a blog post about using such scales to teach the basics of variables.  So, I decided to create a post about three ways to use these scales in your stats classes:  1) Teaching the basics of variables. 2) Nominal vs. ordinal scales.  3) Daily check-in with your students.  1. Teach your students the basics...

1) I disagree with Marc Stein's title  for this article. I don't think NBA great Steven Curry's devotion to his favorite snack is a problem. I think it is a very, very endearing example of someone who knows themselves, knows what works for them, and embraces it. A quote from the article describing Curry's popcorn devotion: 2) Curry loves popcorn so much that at the behest of the New York Times, Curry rated popcorn served at all of the pro-basketball arenas: Here is an example of the assessment form:  And here are the results of the NYT's n=1 study. In addition to a statistics class example, I think this could also be used in an I/O class to explain Subject Matter Experts ;)

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! ...