America is shamefully inadequate at teaching statistics. A student can travel from kindergarten to a Ph.D. without ever encountering the subject. Yet statistics are ubiquitous in life, and so should be statistical reasoning.
Alan S. Blinder (1945 - )
| Clue | Clue |
|---|---|
| dome | maiden |
| said rule | anger |
| level curb | maples |
| meet irises | rain cave |
| true oil | cool terrain |
| next premise | tour skis |
| salsa request | fenced icon |
| its logic | in a limbo |
| poisons | persona |
| dust tents | trap oily bib |
Statistics Anagrams!
Directions: Rearrange the letters of each clue's word or phrase to form a statistical word or phrase. For example, the word "name" can be rearranged to form the word "mean."
Solutions (PDF)
A
Better
Confidence:
Data.
Expectations
Fit
Good.
Hypothesizing,
I
Jettison
Kurtosis,
Leptokurtic
Moments.
Normality
Obliges
Parameters.
Qualification:
Rejecting
Significance,
Testing
Uniform
Variance
While
X-bars
Yield
Z-scores.
Nothing is not, said he,
The absence of anything.
Why so?, said she.
Because, said he,
Recall Aristotle?
Well no, said she.
It's so subtle, said he.
There are two varieties
Of empty cells, you see,
Empty of necessity
And empty accidentally, said he.
Uh?, said she,
I don't get it.
It's Nothing, said he,
Forget it.
written as part of class project at St. Olaf College
("World of chaos" by Carolyn Raitt; "Reality bites" by Hannah Johnson; "Is it you or me" by Nicole Villa)
World of chaos
How can I find truth in here?
Stats gives life order.
Reality bites
Whipping data into shape
Statistics bites back
Is it you, or me?
Your hopes, my size - both too big
Love, your p-value
by Anthony Masci
The stats prof thought that he was drinking Guinness just like Gosset did
but it turned out to be Poisson liquid.
When his students heard they became Hypergeometric
and rather non-parametric.
They couldn't believe that it was true,
but the old professor managed to pull through!
"So they made a type-I error," said he,
and they all ate a dinner of Tukey and gravy.