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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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  • Song: Central Tendency

    Song describes when to use mode, mean, and median. Available at http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/courses/epsy480/songs/central_tendency.mp3

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  • Video: Statz Rappers

    This video is a humorous refresher of statistics methodology. This rap video presents a parody with statistical references. It is quite entertaining.

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  • Selective Attention: Gorilla Video

    This video is an example of what is known in psychology as selective attention. When a person is instructed to only focus on the number of times a ball is passed between players wearing a white shirt it is sometimes difficult to see what else is going on.

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  • Illuminations: Birthday Paradox

    This lesson plan uses the Birthday Paradox to introduce basic concepts of probability. Students run a Monte Carlo simulation using the TI-83 graphing calculator to generate random dates, and then search for matching pairs. Students also perform a graphical analysis of the birthday-problem function. Key Words: Permutations; Explicit Function; Recursive Function; Modeling.

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  • Against All Odds Index

    This text document is a detailed index of the Against All Odds video series. This detailed index allows instructors to quickly find stories that can be used in the classroom. The author also includes the his ratings of which video segments are useful in the classroom. The actual videos are viewable online and are also indexed in CAUSEweb.

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  • Video: Against All Odds: 17. Samples and Surveys

    This free online video program "shows how to improve the accuracy of a survey by using stratified random sampling and how to avoid sampling errors such as bias. While surveys are becoming increasingly important tools in shaping public policy, a 1936 Gallup poll provides a striking illustration of the perils of undercoverage."

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  • Video: Against All Odds: 18. Introduction to Probability

    In this free online video program, "students will learn the distinction between deterministic phenomena and random sampling. This program introduces the concepts of sample space, events, and outcomes, and demonstrates how to use them to create a probability model. A discussion of statistician Persi Diaconis's work with probability theory covers many of the central ideas about randomness and probability."

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