The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to
announce our 95th 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 April 30 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/april/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.
Enjoy.
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March Results:
The March caption contest cartoon is shown above. The judges found the winning caption to
be “Left unsupervised, confounding children will turn raw data into processed junk”
submitted by Grant Zoo a student at the University of Virginia. Grant’s caption
illustrates the idea that an inappropriate process of collecting data may be a confounder
in its interpretation. An honorable mention this month goes to an anonymous submission
for the caption "Tossing out the outliers does not leave you will a healthy data
set.,” similar to the winning caption this one, focusing on outliers, helps in discussing
the idea that grabbing just the data you want does not provide a representative sample.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!
Finally, we would like to recognize the great work of Gary Hatfield from South Dakota
State University who is retiring this semester and leaving the caption contest judging
panel after eight years. If you would like to take part in the judging of the CAUSE
caption contest please email Dennis Pearl at dkp13@psu.edu<mailto:dkp13@psu.edu> by
April 20th.