I usually blog about funny examples for the teaching of statistics, but this example is for teachers teaching statistics. Normile, Bloesch, Davoli, & Scheer's recent publication, "Introducing the new statistics in the classroom" (2019) is very aptly and appropriately titled. It is a rundown on p-values and effect sizes and confidence intervals. Such reviews exist elsewhere, but this one is just so short and precise. Here are a few of the highlights: 1) The article concisely explains what isn't great or what is frequently misunderstood about NHST. 2) Actual guidelines for how to explain it in Psychological Statistics/Introduction to Statistics, including ideas for doing so without completely redesigning your class. 3) It also highlights one of the big reasons that I am so pro-JASP: Easy to locate and use effect sizes.

UPDATE 10/30/25: That MSN article disappeared, so here is a report on hurricane cone straight from The Weather Channel:  https://weather.com/science/weather-explainers/news/2025-10-22-weather-words-cone-of-uncertainty  Thanks to Dr. Emily Cohen-Shikora for the head's up about the dead link! UPDATE 10/5/22: No paywall article that conveys the same information:  https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/cone-of-confusion-why-some-say-iconic-hurricane-map-misled-floridians/ar-AA12Bqyp Did you know that hurricane prediction maps are confidence intervals? This is one of my examples that serves more as a metaphor than a concrete explanation for a statistic, so bear with me. The New York Times created a beautiful, interactive website (it looked exceptionally sharp on my phone). The website attempts to explain what hurricane prediction maps tell us, as well as how people interpret them. The website is at NYT, so you likely hit a paywall if you have already viewed three stor...

TL:DR: Global water temperature data from <1940 was collected by sailors collecting buckets of water from the ocean and recording the temperature of their bucket water. But some recorded data was rounded (thanks, Air Force!). Then, researchers had to transform their data. ^Go to the 3 minute mark to see the bucket-boat-water-temperature technique in action Here is the original research,  published in Nature . NPR covered the research article . Reporter Rebecca Hersher didn't discuss the entire research paper. Instead, she told the story of how the researchers discovered and corrected for their flawed ocean water temperature data. This story might be a little beyond Intro Stats, but it tells the story of messy, real archival data used to inform global climate change and b) introduces the idea of data transformations. Below, I will highlight some of the teaching items. Systematic bias: The data were all flawed in the same way as they were transcribed without any da...