Consumer Affairs released a list of America's best and worst drivers . It is a short article but contains many good stats nuggets. 1. Ratio and ordinal versions of the same data. 2. Where did the ratio data come from? Take a look at the Methodology. 3.  Here is the data for the twenty most terrible driver s. It includes the nominal/ratio data I shared above and the top four bullet points from the image above. 4. Where did they find their data? Lucky for us, they cite their data. Which is good form, right? But also, it is an example of how much hecking data is out there. 

I'm a fan of former NASA engineer and current YouTuber/science comm pro  Mark Rober . He meets the sweet spot of containing YouTube content that is safe for kids but also engaging for adults. You may know him for creating obstacle courses for squirrels in his backyard and holding the world record for the tallest elephant toothpaste explosion .  Recently, I discovered that he made a stats-adjacent video  explaining machine learning by studying baseball signals and creating a way to de-code baseball signals . Anyway, if you touch on your topics in your classes, this is a great, quick explainer. It is well-edited, well-produced, and has captioning. You don't need to be a baseball fan to follow this example. 

 I have written about the NFL's response to concussion data as a case study of how to obfuscate data. This has been covered in many places, including in The Atlantic and on PBS . In my experience, concussions are a prime source of conversation for traditionally college-aged students. Many of them were high school athletes. Fewer are college athletes. Most college students have personally experienced a concussion or loves someone who has. Now, the University of Pittsburgh is opening the National Sports Brain Bank . This is for athletes, not just football players. Two former Steelers have promised their brains, as have two scientists who played contact sports.  Here is a press release from the University of Pittsburgh . Here is a news report  featuring the two Steelers who have promised to donate their brains. However, as described by Aschwander, we still don't know how many football players have CTE (please read this piece, it is such good stats literacy from Aschwander...