The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 60th Cartoon Caption Contest – now ongoing every month for a full five 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 May 31 are at   

https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/may/2021/submissions 

 

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. 

 

April Results:  The April caption contest featured a cartoon showing a man holding up a baby on the ledge of a mountain reminiscent of the way Simba is held in the famous “circle of life” scene at the beginning of the Disney cartoon movie Lion King. The winning caption for the April contest was “From the people who brought you ‘Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo Simulation,’ ‘Honey, I Regressed the Kids,’ and ‘Angels in the Outlierfield,’ get ready for an instant classic, ‘The Line King!’” written by Christopher Jay Lacke from Rowan University.  Christopher’s caption can be used to introduce a variety of issues in the regression setting.  An honorable mention this month goes to Brian King, a student at Rice University for the caption: “They had said data scientists were lionized nowadays, but this was taking it to a whole new level.” 

 

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