The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 82nd Cartoon Caption Contest!  Each month a cartoon, drawn by British cartoonist John Landers, is posted for you and your students to suggest statistical captions (cartoons are posted at the beginning of the month and submissions are due at the end of the month).   The caption contest is offered as a fun way to get your students thinking independently about statistical concepts.

The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending March 31 are at  

https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/march/2023/submissions

The best submission will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the final cartoon.

Enjoy.

February Results:  

The February caption contest cartoon is shown here. The judges found the winning caption to be “Don’t worry. Normally the cannon is right on target … give or take a standard deviation or two,” written by Laurie Baker at the College of the Atlantic.  Laurie’s caption can be used  to introduce ideas of the bias (degree of being on target) and reliability (degree of deviation) of estimators. An honorable mention this month goes to Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso for the caption; “The can(n)ons of statistical science include testability and empiricism.” Larry’s caption focuses on these general canons for scientific research that apply deeply to statistics. 

Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!