The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 88th 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 - a great activity for the start of the new term. 

The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending September 30 are at   

https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/september/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 or free registration to eCOTS2024. 

August Results:    

The August caption contest cartoon is shown above. The judges found the winning caption to be “A recess? Apologies, your honor. I thought you called for a regress.!” submitted by Javier Lopez, a student at Penn State University.  Javier’s caption is a funny way to start a conversation about the difference between a regression fit and a line plot and the type of data involved.  An honorable mention this month goes to John Bailer from Miami University for his caption: “Wipe off that silly grin. Without scales and labels, the jury can't evaluate your graphical evidence,” that can be used to remind students of the importance of scales and labels in understanding the relationships shown in a graph. 

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