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  • You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin. A quote on June 25, 1933 by American humorist, social commentator, and actor, Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) found in "The Will Rogers Book" Texian Press, 1972. The quote also appears in Statistically Speaking: A dictionary of quotations compiled by Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither.

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  • A cartoon that can be used in teaching about the efficiency of using simulation in statistics. Cartoon 2006 by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.

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  • He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination. A quote attributed to scottish writer Andrew Lang (1844-1912) in Evan Esar's "The Dictionary of Humerous Quotations". Dell Publishing, 1943. The quote also appears in "Statistically Speaking: A dictionary of quotations" compiled by Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither.
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  • On his standard of proof, natural science would never progress, for without the making of theories I am convinced there would be no observation. A quote from a letter English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) wrote to Charles Lyell on June 1, 1860. The letter is found in "The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin" volume II p. 108 published in 1888. The quote also appears in "Statistically Speaking: A dictionary of quotations" compiled by Carl Gaither and Alma Cavazos-Gaither.
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  • A cartoon to teach the need for a good control group in research studies. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) in 2003 based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites. The cartoon's caption is similar to one by American cartoonist Peter S Mueller that depicts a control group and an "out of control" group that was produced independently a few years before this one.
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  • A cartoon to teach about using boxplots to summarize a distribution. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.
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  • A cartoon to teach about interpreting observational studies. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.
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  • A cartoon to teach about the importance of understanding interpretation over the hand calculation of statistics. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.
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  • A cartoon to teach about the importance of diagnostics in Markoc chain Monte Carlo procedures. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.
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  • A cartoon to teach about the value of a Placebo in experiments. Cartoon by John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea from Dennis Pearl (The Ohio State University). Free to use in the classroom and on course web sites.
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