The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 64th Cartoon Caption Contest – now ongoing every month for 2^6 months! 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/2021/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.

August Results: The August caption contest featured a “war room” scene with four generals looking at a battle plan. All of the generals have multiple medals on their uniforms but the medals for one are statistical graphs. The winning caption for the August contest was “It's important not to over-generalize from a small dataset,” written by John Bailer from Miami University. John’s caption can be used to help start a class conversation about when it is proper to generalize a conclusion to a broader population. Three honorable mentions this month go to

Jim Alloway of EMSQ Associates for his caption: “When dealing with uncertainty and interactions, those utilizing data generally come out ahead,”
Elise Abbot, a student at Penn State University, for her caption: “Despite his vague and sometimes confusing directions, the army kept General Statistics with them because he knew too much: He was far too valuable to let fall into enemy hands,” and
Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso for his caption: “Rank-order statistics is not just for the military!”

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