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  • A song to aid in discussing various common problems seen in the wording of questions in sample surveys. The original music and lyrics were written in 2017 by Lawrence Mark Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso. The song won second place in the 2017 A-mu-sing contest.
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  • A song to be used in discussions about the meaning of the correlation coefficient (r) and r^2. The lyrics were written by Mary McLellan from Aledo High School in Aledo Texas and are a parody of the 1989 hip hop song "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. The song won an honorable mention in the 2017 A-mu-sing contest.
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  • A song to be used in discussing the idea that the null hypothesis represents the model of no effect (with several common examples). The original music and lyrics were written in 2017 by Greg Crowther from Everett Community College. The song won an honorable mention in the 2017 A-mu-sing contest. In the current 2018 version the music is by Greg Crowther and the revised lyrics and vocals are by Greg Crowther and Larry Lesser from University of Texas at El Paso.

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  • A cartoon to aid in the discussion of volunteer sampling and response bias in surveys. The cartoon was created in 2017 by Sabrina Cappella, a student at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and took the grand prize in the 2017 A-mu-sing competition.
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  • A cartoon to aid in the discussion of the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics. The cartoon was created by Greg Crowther from Everett Community College and took second place in the cartoon category of the 2017 A-mu-sing competition.
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  • A cartoon to aid in the discussion of the importance of replication. The cartoon was created in 2017 by Lyla El-Fayomi, a student at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and won an honorable mention in the cartoon category of the 2017 A-mu-sing competition.
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  • A short story that might be used in an out of class assignment to explore life tables and the expected value of an annuity. The story was written by Steve Mathys from One America Companies. The story won second place in the Society of Actuaries 7th annual Speculative Fiction Contest in 2007.
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  • A short story that might be used as an out-of-class assignment to facilitate understanding the interpretation of a 95% confidence interval as a random interval that is expected to cover the true parameter in 95% of all samples. The story was written in 2011 by Canadian mathematician Robert Dawson from Saint Mary's University in Halifax Nova Scotia. The story was published as a two part series at www.Lablit.com
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  • A short story that might be used in an out-of-class assignment to understand lifetime distributions. The story was written by Ben Marshall of FaithLife Financial in Waterloo Ontario, Canada. The story took first place in the 2007 Society of Actuaries 7th annual Speculative Fiction Contest.
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  • A short story that can be used in an out-of-class assignment in association with the study of probability rules, Bayes Theorem and expectations as they relate to games of chance. The story was written by Canadian Mathematician Robert Dawson from Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and appeared in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics (volume 7, issue 1, January 2017).
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