CAUSE September 2020

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The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for September is now taking entries!

by Burghard, Laura

The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 52nd Cartoon Caption Contest – now ongoing every month for over four years! 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 September 30 are at https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/september/2020/submissions<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cause…> The best captions will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the cartoon and their caption. Enjoy. August Results: There were 61 entries for the August caption contest that featured a cartoon showing a nearly empty auditorium except for three audience members sitting far apart from each other and wearing masks and four people on stage wearing masks and sitting in front of computers. There are Olympics rings on the wall behind them. The winning caption for the August contest was “With the 2020 Olympic athletes sidelined by the pandemic, the statistical community takes center stage in modeling and vaccine research.” Written by Jim Alloway of EMSQ Associates. Jim’s caption is a nice way to introduce the value of statistics in studying the spread of infectious diseases. An honorable mention goes to Avery Camac, a student at Penn State University for the caption "The audience was at full capacity because they must stay 6 standard deviations apart!" that can be used in general discussions about the rarity of values being so far apart in a population distribution. A second honorable mention goes to an anonymous contributor with the caption “The Venn Diagram competition in the age of COVID sold about as many tickets as could be expected” to introduce the use of Venn diagrams in visualizing probabilities. Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!

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