The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for October is now taking entries (with deadline of October 20 ) The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our seventeenth 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 the month before with submissions due by the 20th) The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending October 20th are at [ https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/october/2017/submissions | https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/october/2017/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. September Results: We had 21 submissions for the September caption contest that featured a cartoon showing two patients in a hospital with one looking very sick and the other looking quite healthy. Charts at the front of their beds show a downward trend for the healthier looking patient and an upward trend for the sicker looking patient. The winning caption for the cartoon was “Charts not starting at 0 make doctors lose patience!” written by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso. The judges chose this caption for it’s play on words and its ability to start a discussion on the importance of appropriate axis labels. Another caption that also noticed the lack of a scale on the charts read simply “Label your axes!” and was submitted by Kyle Falbo of the College of the Redwoods. Two other honorable mentions noticed the disconnect between the charts and the condition of the patients: “Nurse, were these charts doctored?” by Larry Lesser, and “Looks like a bad case of Regression to the Mean” by an anonymous contributor. A final honorable mention went to Chantal Larose of Eastern Connecticut State University for her caption “On average, our patients show no improvement over time.” Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our Winners!