Ace's science fair project about Tom Brady: How to use as a class warm-up exercise

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I think this would be a great warm-up activity early in the semester. My boy Ace had a research hypothesis, operationalized his research, tried to collect data points using several test subjects, and measured his outcomes. Here is the original interview from Draft Diamonds and Newsweek's story.

1) How did he operationalize his hypothesis? What was his IV? DV?

2) Did he use proper APA headers? Should APA style require the publication of pictures of crying researchers if their findings don't replicate?

3) This data could be analyzed using a repeated measure ANOVA. He had various members of his family throw a football as different PSIs and he measured how far the ball traveled and calculated mean for three attempts at each PSI.

4) His only participants were his mom, dad, and sister. So, this study is probably underpowered.
5) In this video from NBC news, Ace's dad describes how they came up with the research idea. Ace isn't crazy about school but he loves football, so he did research about football. Really, is that so different from how many of us decided on our thesis or dissertation ideas?

Ways to use funny meme scales in your stats classes

Have you ever heard of the theory that there are multiple people worldwide thinking about the same novel thing at the same time? It is the multiple discovery hypothesis of invention . Like, multiple great minds around the world were working on calculus at the same time. Well, I think a bunch of super-duper psychology professors were all thinking about scale memes and pedagogy at the same time. Clearly, this is just as impressive as calculus. Who were some of these great minds? 1) Dr. Molly Metz maintains a curated list of hilarious "How you doing?" scales. 2) Dr. Esther Lindenström posted about using these scales as student check-ins. 3) I was working on a blog post about using such scales to teach the basics of variables. So, I decided to create a post about three ways to use these scales in your stats classes: 1) Teaching the basics of variables. 2) Nominal vs. ordinal scales. 3) Daily check-in with your students. 1. Teach your students the basics...

Leo DiCaprio Romantic Age Gap Data: UPDATE

Does anyone else teach correlation and regression together at the end of the semester? Here is a treat for you: Updated data on Leonardo DiCaprio, his age, and his romantic partner's age when they started dating. A few years ago, there was a dust-up when a clever Redditor r/TrustLittleBrother realized that DiCaprio had never dated anyone over 25. I blogged about this when it happened. But the old data was from 2022. Inspired by this sleuthing, I created a wee data set, including up-to-date information on his current relationship with Vittoria Ceretti, so your students can suss out the patterns that exist in this data.

Logical Fallacy Ref Meme

So, I love me some good statsy memes. They make a brief, important point that sticks in the heads of students. I've recently learned of the Logical Fallacy Ref meme. Here are a couple that apply to stats class:

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