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Great Tweets about Statistics

I've shared these on my Twitter feed, and in a previous blog post dedicated to stats funnies. However,  I decided it would be useful to have a dedicated, occasionally updated blog post devoted to Twitter Statistics Comedy Gold.

How to use in class? If your students get the joke, they get a stats concept.


















*Aside: I know I could have embedded these Tweets, but I decided to make my life easier by using screenshots.














How NOT to write a response option. 



Real life inter-rater reliability
Scale Development








Alright, technically not Twitter, but I am thrilled to make an exception for this clever, clever costume:








This whole thread is awesome...https://twitter.com/EmpiricalDave/status/1067941351478710272






Randomness is tricky! And not random!





















Click through to see the wonderful video!! https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1169249892386185216

mean, median, measures of central tendency

significance, power




Bayes Theorem

graphs and charts, Halloween

quantitative, qualitative

p-values in real life

GLM for the win
Excel, data formatting

multi-collinearity


skew











 
https://twitter.com/rlmcelreath/status/1280106715195650048

SMBC comic
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-data









 






 


https://twitter.com/jkrillustration/status/1329180198772887555










 










 








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