The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to
announce our 92nd 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 January 31 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/january/2024/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.
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Enjoy.
December Results:
The December caption contest cartoon is shown above. The judges found the winning caption
to be “Always an outlier, Stan wondered why he never lined up with those around him.”
submitted by Jeremy Case from Taylor University. Jeremy’s caption is intended to help
discuss how outliers in linear regression models are worth studying and can lead you to
further research questions. An honorable mention this month goes to José Villalobos from
The University of Texas at El Paso for his caption: “Not everyone can be an influencer”
that relates a social media pun to illustrates the difference between a point being an
outlier and being influential (since the outlier in the plot is not particularly
influential in the regression).
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!