The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for November is now taking entries
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to
announce our sixth Cartoon Caption Contest. Each month a cartoon, drawn by British
cartoonist John Landers, will be posted for you and your students to suggest statistical
captions. (note: the cartoons are posted on the 2nd day of each month while the
announcements of winners come in the middle of the month)
The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending November 1 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/november/2016/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 or free registration to eCOTS 2018.
Enjoy.
October Results: We had 38 submissions for the October caption contest that featured a
cartoon showing an alien from the “xylopf survey company” interviewing a horse. The
October caption contest had two co-winners. Larry Lesser, from The University of Texas at
El Paso, won with his entry “Thank you for being part of this Gallop Poll!” Larry’s
caption was selected for its brevity and clever play on words and for being well suited
for starting a conversation about the history and use of statistics in polling. Our second
winner was Alan Russell from Elon University whose entry “If your sample isn't drawn
correctly, it will be flawed even if it came straight from the horse's mouth!” would
be useful in a discussion of the importance of design in surveys. Other honorable mentions
that rose to the top of the judging included “Xylopf Poll Results: A majority of the
creatures on the green and blue planet are brown neigh-sayers” written by Anna Peterson
from Iowa State University; “So your answer to the question, 'Do aliens exist?'
would be Neigh?” written by Erin Hodgess of University of Houston; “Sorry
'neigh'bor ... I only participate in Gallop's surveys” written by Jeff Collier
from LCM High School; and “Based on the findings of this survey all creatures on this
planet must have 4 legs, a tail, and neigh in answer to any question..., how convenient
that I met one of them on my first try!,” written by Catharina Beussen, from Alisal High
School.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to all of our Winners!