Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

NFL.com's Football Freakanomics

Barry-Jester, Casselman, & Goldstein's "Should prison sentences be based on crimes that haven't been committed yet?"

r/faux_pseudo's "Distribution of particles by size from a Cracker Jack box

Orlin's "What does probability mean in your profession?"

Barry-Jester's "What A Bar Graph Can Tell Us About The Legionnaires’ Outbreak In New York" + CDC learning module

U.S. Holocaust Mueseum's "Deadly medicine, creating the master race" traveling exhibit

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

How NOT to interpret confidence intervals/margins of error: Feel the Bern edition

Aschwanden's "Science is broken, it is just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for"