The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 81st 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 February 28 are at
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!
January Results:
The January caption contest cartoon is shown here. The judges found the winning caption to be “Houston, we have an outlier,” written by Amelia Williams, a student at University of Toronto. Amelia’s funny caption can be used to discuss the importance of investigating and understanding the outliers in data sets. An honorable mention goes to Peter Karen from Radboud University for another outlier focused caption; “Next question: are you an outlier, or still in the same sample space as the rest of us?” Peter’s caption focuses more specifically on teaching about how outliers may be the result of a different data generating mechanism. A second honorable mention this month goes to Julia Gray, a student at Strath Haven High School for her caption “Diversity in a sample is important! How far will you go …?” Julia’s caption is intended to spur conversation about the importance of capturing the make-up of the whole population in devising a sampling plan.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!