Cool Stats Stuff
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A selection of the teacher's favorites. Poor sampling, lots of bias. Please suggest additions and deletions.
BB&N AP Stats Class Music Videos
"I'm Doing Stats" (feat. P-Payne)
- 2009-10 Recruiting Video. Wow! A non-research project for 3 students after the AP.
AP Strong (Quicktime)
- 2008-9. Our first attempt at this. This was a non-research project for 4 students after the AP.
AP Stats Class Music Videos
AP Stats Story: A Recruitment Music Video
- Good music, fun, well thought out. Great job.
AP Stats Aint No Rest for the Student
- MaineStats. Great beat and words. What fun!
AP stats ignition_0001
- MaineStats. Mellow and cool. Not in my face. Something new. Like it!
Statz Rappers
- Incredible rap about stats by an HS stats class.
Stats Rap
- Good coverage of topics :)
So Sick of Z-scores
- Really nice music and singing.
TED Talks
No more boring data. Hans Rosling
New insights on poverty and life around the world. Hans Rosling
The two above contain amazing descriptive stats for any level stats student. A related link is the software referenced by Hans, now freely available as a webapp at
http://www.gapminder.org
[Suggested by Doug Tyson]
How juries are fooled by statistics. Peter Donnelly
An incredible example of the misuse of some probabilities (conditional probabilities) that sadly convicted an innocent woman.[Suggested by Doug Tyson]
Statistic
s T-Shirts/Gifts
Cafe Press
Statistics Gifts (shirts, mugs, ties, etc.)
Statistics Cartoons
Cartoon Stock
CARTOONBANK
(New Yorker Magazine)
Cartoonist Group
(don't have cursor over cartoon)
Dilbert Sampling Difficulties
XKCD
- A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. [Suggested by Celia Rowland]
Dangers of extrapolation
Correlation
Statistically significant