Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

Why measures of variability matter: Average age of death in The Olden Days

The Economist: Election predictions, confidence intervals, and measures of central tedency.

Planet Money's The Modal American

Do Americans spend $18K/year on non-essentials?

A bunch of pediatricians swallowed Lego heads. You can use their research to teach the basics of research methods and stats.

The Knot's Real Wedding Study 2017

Crash Course: Statistics

Math With Bad Drawing's "Why Not to Trust Statistics"

Annenberg Learner's "Against All Odds"

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

If your students get the joke, they get statistics.

u/dat data's "Why medians > averages [OC] "

Anscombe's Quartet

An example of when the median is more useful than the mean. Also, Bill Gates.

Weber and Silverman's "Memo to Staff: Time to Lose a Few Pounds"