Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

First day of class: Persuading students to treat statistics class as more than a necessary evil (with updates)

ed.ted.com: TED video + assessment + discussion board

Nate Silver and Allison McCann's "How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name"

Every baby knows the scientific method

John Oliver and global climate change data

Public Religion Research Institute's “I Know What You Did Last Sunday” Finds Americans Significantly Inflate Religious Participation"

Priceonomic's Hipster Music Index

Hey, girl...(updated 6/25/14)

Jess Hartnett's presentation at the 2014 APS Teaching Institute

Marketing towards children: Ethics and research

Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations

Matt Daniel's "The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop"