Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

Hickey's "The 20 Most Extreme Cases Of ‘The Book Was Better Than The Movie"

Esther Inglis-Arkell's "I Had My Brain Monitored While Looking at Gory Pictures. For Science!"

"Guess the Correlation" game

NFL.com's Football Freakanomics

Barry-Jester, Casselman, & Goldstein's "Should prison sentences be based on crimes that haven't been committed yet?"

r/faux_pseudo's "Distribution of particles by size from a Cracker Jack box

Orlin's "What does probability mean in your profession?"

Barry-Jester's "What A Bar Graph Can Tell Us About The Legionnaires’ Outbreak In New York" + CDC learning module

U.S. Holocaust Mueseum's "Deadly medicine, creating the master race" traveling exhibit

An example of when the median is more useful than the mean. Also, Bill Gates.

How NOT to interpret confidence intervals/margins of error: Feel the Bern edition

Aschwanden's "Science is broken, it is just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for"

Mersereau's "Wunderground Uses Fox News Graphing Technique to Boast Forecast Skills"

Dayna Evans "Do You Live in a "B@%$#" or a "F*%&" State? American Curses, Mapped"

McFadden's "Frances Oldham Kelsey, F.D.A. Stickler Who Saved U.S. Babies From Thalidomide, Dies at 101"

ANOVA example using Patty Neighmond's "To ease pain, reach for your play list."

Memes pertaining to the teaching of statistics, research methods, and undergraduate advising.

Kristopher Magnusson's "Understanding the t-distribution and its normal approximation"

Aarti Shahani's "How will the next president protect our digital lives?"

One article (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014), three stats/research methodology lessons

"Correlation is not causation", Parts 1 and 2