Chi-square example involving American's beliefs about vampires. Seriously.

OK.

I'm proud of this one.

I think these are good chi-square examples. And they are about Americans' beliefs about various supernatural beings. Presented with commentary because I couldn't help myself.

1. Supernatural beliefs by age

Already. I fully intended to tease my traditional UGs about their beliefs about vampires. Because I do believe that would probably be a significant chi-square...but...

...IS GEN X OK? This survey asks about ghosts, demons, psychics, vampires, and werewolves. What are the "OTHER" this survey is talking about? Aliens? Dolly Parton? I'm intrigued.

2. Werewolves: The Unity Horse. The Unity Wolf?

Both Trump and Biden supporters are united in their belief that werewolves do NOT exist.

Anyway. This survey is intriguing. There is a lot of material to work with. Go read it here.

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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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