The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 80th 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 January 31 are at   

https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/january/2023/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. 


Enjoy.

December Results:    

 

The December caption contest cartoon is shown here. The judges found the winning caption to be “Statistics is becoming so popular that trend lines are becoming trend setters," written by Dashiell Young-Saver, from IDEA Public Schools.  Dashiell’s catchy caption can be used to discuss the value of visualizations for displaying time series data. An honorable mention this month goes to Larry Lesser from University of Texas at El Paso for his caption, “Walking the red carpet for her song "Mean", Taylor Swift was accompanied by a "moving average" plot!.”  Larry’s caption focuses more specifically on teaching about using moving averages to provide a more stable estimate of a trend with time. 

 

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