Fun

  • A cartoon for discussing how subgroup analyses often lead to false positive results (using the comical idea of someone studying your study by having both treatment arms give a placebo).  The cartoon is #2726 in the web comic XKCD created by Randall Munroe.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A cartoon for describing both issues associate with meta analyses and with the large number of unreplicated scientific studies. The cartoon is #2755 in the web comic at XKCD.com by Randall Monroe (see https://xkcd.com/2755/).

    0
    No votes yet
  • A joke for discussing the calculus prerequisite for an upper division probability course.  The joke was written by Dennis Pearl and Larry Lesser in October 2022.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A song about the trimmed mean as a robust measure of distributional center.  The lyric was written by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University in May 2023 and may be sung to the tune of the KitKat jingle - music by Michael A. Levin and lyric by Ken Shuldman used in the KitKat candy bar advertisements since 1986.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A cartoon for discussing time series plots. Here an instructor might ask if the graph shown is a possible function of time.  The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2017.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A cartoon to initiate a discussion about cleaning data.  The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A cartoon to be used in discussing forecasting. The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A humorous cartoon that might be usefult to discuss the meaning of "Expectations" in the graph shown and how best to display the information provided in the two graphs if the relationship between expectations and sales is paramount. The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A cartoon to help discuss both the value and limits of making predictions with large amounts of data. The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2015.

    0
    No votes yet
  • A cartoon to facilitate discussion of designing a useful data dashboard. The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2014.

    0
    No votes yet

Pages