The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 71st Cartoon Caption Contest!  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 April 30 are at 

https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/april/2022/submissions

The best submission will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the final cartoon or free registration for eCOTS.

Enjoy.

March Results:  

The March caption contest cartoon is shown here. The winning caption for the contest was “Even the Statistical Genie-us couldn't beat the house," written by Rich Einsporn from the University of Akron.  Rich’s caption provides a good way to introduce the Law of Large Numbers using the negative expectation for games of chance at a casino. An honorable mention this month goes to Erik Svenneby, a student at University of Colorado Boulder for his caption “The Casino: where the rich go to drive the GINI coefficient down,” 

which invites classroom conversation about why the GINI measure of inequality for wealth would be reduced when rich people play at the casino.

Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!