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Truncated Y-axis, but with female celebrities.

Why did I find this after my textbook was published? Damn it. I have a whole section about how Y-axis manipulation can make small differences look huge and then...I find this. Damn it. Source:   https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly/comments/1hjr01o/height_of_female_popstars/

Modal religions in American counties

I love my more elaborate examples, but this is a short, sweet, and interesting way to refresh your measures of central tendency lecture when you explain mode. I present you with the modal religions in each U.S. county: Here is a link to the  Reddit  post that introduced me to the data, and here is a link to the original data .

An interactive that gets your students thinking about medians, percentiles, and their own sleeping habits.

My students struggle with sleeping and are distracted by electronics. This interactive activity allows them to think about their sleep relative to norms regarding age and sex. It also dives deeply into how sleep changes over a person's lifespan, which is a topic suitable for non-static classes like Health or Developmental.   https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2024/sleep-data-survey-americans/ *You need a WaPo subscription or paywall buster to get to this interactive. Like this one! https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2024/sleep-data-survey-americans/ Here is a quick interactive that a) lets your students see how well they sleep, in comparison to their demographic and b) think about median data and percentile data.  1. Repursped, gently used data is really everywhere. This interactive uses data from the Census Bureau. Which is a way to measure sleep, but not the only way. 2. Median and percentil...