Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

u/zonination's "Got ticked off about skittles posts, so I decided to make a proper analysis for /r/dataisbeautiful [OC]"

Kevin McIntyre's Open Stats Lab

A wintery mix of holiday data.

Wilson's "Find Out What Your British Name Would Be"

Aschwanden's "You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition"

Chokshi's "How Much Weed Is in a Joint? Pot Experts Have a New Estimate"

The Onion's "Study: Giving Away “I Voted” Burger Instead Of Sticker Would Increase Voter Turnout By 80%"

Johnson & Wilson's The 13 High-Paying Jobs You Don’t Want to Have

CNN, exit polls, and chi-square examples.

Collin's "America’s most prolific wall punchers, charted"

Turner's "E Is For Empathy: Sesame Workshop Takes A Crack At Kindness" and the K is for Kindness survey.

Hancock's "Skip The Math: Researchers Paint A Picture Of Health Benefits And Risks"

Pew Research's "The art and science of the scatterplot"

Pew Research's "Growing Ideological Consistency"

Dr. Barry Marshall as an example of Type II error.

Hyperbole and a Half's "Boyfriend doesn't have ebola. Probably. "

If your students get the joke, they get statistics.