Two things I love to use when teaching stats are: 1)  Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) visual abstracts . I've blogged about them before. 2) Useful tools to generate pretend data sets that mimic real data, and use those pretend data sets to teach. See: Richard  Landers '  and Andrew Luttrell 's websites. So, I was delighted when I saw this recently posted visual abstract about  Ewing-Cobbs et al. (2026) research on using a specific CBT program to reduce stress in children following a traumatic physical injury .  https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2848163 I have a new  example of an independent  t  test  for class. Yay! And I teach tons of future nurses/PAs, so it is doubly applicable. However, the authors stated that the data wasn't immediately available. Also, once it is available, they (very reasonably) want to track their data sharing. Meaning that even if I could get their data, I shouldn't be s...

This is an article about a very sensitive topic, but it is also a hopeful article (young adult suicide seems to be on the decline in the US, and there is reason to believe that it is due to the introduction of the 988 hotline .) Here is a  link to the original research study published in JAMA Network , and here is a link to  Scientific American's write-up on the research . In my class, I emphasize that regression has a lot in common with correlation, but adds prediction. I emphasize it so much that I used it in the name of my regression chapter in my textbook . As such, I was delighted to find this  excellent, psychology-related example of how past data was used to predict the future. But the future is the present? And the predicted data lives in an alternative timeline where the 988 mental health crisis hotline never existed in America. Anyway, TL;DR: Young adult suicide is on the decline (hooray!!) in America, and this research a) uses fancy regression to demonstrate th...

Two of my very favorite statistics comic sources are  Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and XKCD.    I have been following them for years, but more recently, I came across Jono Hey's Sketchplanations . These aren't ha-ha comics as much as they are concise explanations of complex concepts. And some of those explanations involve statistics and would look lovely in your class lectures. This is perfect for those of us who teach JASP and try to explain the dangers of misspelling words used as nominal variables.  Also, he has a few that provide images to go with some of our favorite data quotes: Here are full entries under the comic's  statistics  and  data  tags.