Caption Contests
Each month a panel of educators will evaluate (blind) the submitted cartoon captions based on their edutainment value for teaching statistics.
Entries are welcome from all who use or enjoy statistics, including: students, instructors, and professionals.
See past entries and ongoing contests below!
How does that make you feel to hear the words ‘not normal?’
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Tried to eggstrapolate, but had a fall! All the king’s horses, women, and men couldn’t do modeling with that small n!
Left unsupervised, confounding children will turn raw data into processed junk
Ever since they made the minimum load size 30, the Central Laundry Theorem has never been so pronounced!
Regression Models can be very sensitive to noise and outlying behaviors!
A big outlier can create havoc with your normality assumptions
Creatures of habit explore data via z(ebra) scores, extended mosaic plots, and lion of best fit.
The Outlier family prepares for a day of subverting expectations and derailing hypotheses
Using point estimates without standard errors is just clowning around
After the balls and rings, the crowd went wild for the juggling of the least squares
Tulips are yellow, daisies are pink, simple random sampling for these fields, could be worse than you might think!
Data Mining dwarfs traditional statistical methods
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January 2024 - How does that make you feel to hear the words "not normal?"
Winners: Mike Leuke, Dane Joseph, Stephen Walsh, & Cigdem Sirin -
February 2024 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Tried to eggstrapolate, but had a fall! All the king’s horses, women, and men couldn’t do modeling with that small n!
Winners: Larry Lesser & Jim Alloway -
March 2024 - Left unsupervised, confounding children will turn raw data into processed junk
Winners: Grant Zou -
April 2024 - Ever since they made the minimum load size 30, the Central Laundry Theorem has never been so pronounced!
Winners: Grant Zou, Dashiell Young-Saver, Alden -
May 2024 - Regression Models can be very sensitive to noise and outlying behaviors!
Winners: Jodene Kessler, Kimberly Stanke, & Larry Lesser -
June 2024 - A big outlier can create havoc with your normality assumptions
Winners: Charlie Smith, Larry Lesser, & Laila Poisson -
July 2024 - Creatures of habit explore data via z(ebra) scores, extended mosaic plots, and lion of best fit.
Winners: Larry Lesser, Jim Brumbaugh-Smith, & Rushabh Gala -
August 2024 - The Outlier family prepares for a day of subverting expectations and derailing hypotheses
Winners: Kylee Regennitter, Stephen Walsh, & Ryan Johnson -
September 2024 - Using point estimates without standard errors is just clowning around | | | After the balls and rings, the crowd went wild for the juggling of the least squares
Charlie Smith & Larry Lesser
Nate Josephs & Anonymous -
October 2024 - Tulips are yellow, daisies are pink, simple random sampling for these fields, could be worse than you might think!
Winners: Jackson Lin, Chris Lacke, & Charlie Smith -
November 2024 - Data Mining dwarfs traditional statistical methods
Winners: Jim Brumbaugh-Smith, Anthony Bonifonte, & Teddy Pierson -
December 2024 - Accepting Submissions