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

Well powered replication. https://t.co/y9qHgmTWg5

— 🐙🛐 Will Gervais 🛐🐙 (@wgervais) January 20, 2020

My daughter loved the @FryRsquared Christmas Lectures so much she made this Lego Statistics Animation https://t.co/Q3X2FUYS2m pic.twitter.com/caavfR8ESD
— Caroline Lear (@CarolineLear) May 15, 2020

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

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

P=0.049 pic.twitter.com/o6HCNgmMeM
— Pradeep Natarajan (@pnatarajanmd) September 20, 2020

This is how geologists collect lava samples from active volcano 🔥 pic.twitter.com/lRU24NhxFc
— Nature And Animals 🌿 (@animal0lovers) November 19, 2020