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  • Song: Average Love Songs

    Song includes facts and connections about the mean while making commentary on typical pop radio love songs. May be sung to the tune of "Silly Love Songs" (Paul McCartney). Appeared in September 2005 "Amstat News" and in November 2005 "The Journal of Irreproducible Results". Musical accompaniment realization and vocals are by Joshua Lintz from University of Texas at El Paso.

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  • Song: Use a t

    Song describes conditions for using the t distribution and mentions its inventor William Gosset (and his pseudonym, Student). May be sung to the tune of "Let it Be" (McCartney/Beatles). Musical accompaniment realization and vocals are by Joshua Lintz from University of Texas at El Paso.

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  • Song: The Statistics Song

    Song encourages critical thinking about how surveys are conducted and presented in the media. Published at www.tomsnyder.com/products/productextras/SCISCI/statisticslyrics.html

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  • Song: Taking Leave of Our Census (You Fill Out the Census)

    The song summarizes the controversy about statistically adjusting the United States decennial census for undercount. May be sung to the tune of "Annie's Song" (John Denver). Appeared in Autumn 2001 "Teaching Statistics" and Winter 2002 "STATS". Recorded June 26, 2009 at the OSU Whisper Room: Larry Lesser, vocals/guitar; Justin Slauson, engineer.

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  • Joke: flipping for answers

    Joke of unknown authorship quoted in H.H. Friedman, L.W. Friedman, and T. Amoo, "Using Humor in the Introductory Statistics Course," "Journal of Statistics Education" volume 10, #3 (2002)

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  • Song: Joy's End-of-Term Statistics Rap

    Song gives a conceptual overview of big themes of statistics, including variation, correlation, sampling, residuals, outliers, and the interpretation of a confidence interval. Chorus may be sung to the tune of the chorus of "Lose Yourself"(Eminem). Appears in Summer 2003 "Newsletter for the Section on Statistical Education". May be heard at: http://www.lawrence.edu/fast/jordanj/rap.wav

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  • Quote: Ramseyer on significance

    Old statisticians never die they just become nonsignificant. Quote by Gary Ramseyer (1934 - 2012) listed as joke #56 on http://www.ilstu.edu/~gcramsey/Gallery.html Gary C. Ramseyer's First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes

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  • Joke: The Physicist, the Chemist, and the Statistician

    A classic joke about sample size. This joke apears as joke #45 in Gary C. Ramseyer's First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes at http://www.ilstu.edu/~gcramsey/Gallery.html

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  • Quote: Ballard on Design

    My life is an experiment I never had a chance to properly design. The quote is from American statistical consultant Diana Ballard and is also referenced as joke #74 on Gary Remseyer's First Internet Gallery of Statistics Jokes

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  • Quote: Kaplan on Statistical Techniques

    ... statistical techniques are tools of thought, and not substitutes for thought. Quote of american philosopher Abraham Kaplan (1918-1993) appearing in "The Conduct of Inquiry" (Chandler, 1964) p. 257. Also to be found in "Statistically Speaking" the dictionary of quotations compiled by Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither p. 213

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