That feeling when I use my own blog to teach my own classes. Specifically, I'm using this post about Mr. Beast to introduce the idea of UX testing: notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2023/10/that...

Hm. So, Z = (number of times phrase was used in a year, X) - (Average number of times the phrase was used in any year, M)/SD of number of times the phrase was used in any year?

New post! Use this interactive bee swarm plot from
@flowingdata.com to teach percentiles, median, the importance of government data, and discuss career aspirations with your students.

notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/09/perc...

Dear stats friends: I want to do a blog post about this: www.pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/mps-are-al...

I am having trouble figuring out where the z scores came from. Like, ofc, I know what a z score is, but I'm not following where the M and SD came from for each phrase/word...any ideas?

A fine example of base rates and data interpretation.

New Blog Post: Use this cooking analogy to explain family-wise error. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com

She is in her orange era...🧡💙

Are you an instructor who wants to build your students’ comprehension in your psych course? Join @notawfuljess.bsky.social on Wednesday to learn how you can transition to a conceptual-first approach that builds students' skills using all the now-available resources.

Register here: bit.ly/4lAsSfO

Stats matter. A lot. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is our first data page with this feature, and you’ll see more of these across many different topics in the coming weeks.

Building this feature was truly a team effort. Let us know what you think! And give it a try here: ourworldindata.org/grapher/vacc...

Guess what? @notawfuljess.bsky.social and I did a joint blog post 😀 You can use it to teach ethics, scientific self-correction, NHST, human rights violations, & more.
We both hope you find it useful.
www.everydayresearchmethods.com/2025/07/repa...

Can you imagine the infantile, superficial, and profane Donald Trump talking about his faith in such an eloquent and heartfelt manner?

They hate Stephen Colbert because he is an authentic version of what they pretend to be.

Check out this new blog post. YouGov measured summer activities that everyone loves, or just younguns love. This accessible example explains paired t-tests w sig and non-sig differences. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-qu...

Britons are more regular swearers than Australians or Americans, but what are their top swear words?

Britons
F*ck: 67% use regularly
Sh*t: 65%
Bloody: 54%

Australians
Sh*t: 61%
F*ck: 56%
Bullsh*t: 52%

Americans
Damn: 55%
Sh*t: 54%
F*ck: 47%

👇 more in chart below

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

New Post! Hot off the presses, a curated list of research articles that contain both a) many student authors and b) many of the statistical tests we teach in Intro Stats. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/rous...

New post: This one is short and timely. UFO sightings in America peak on the 4th of July. That's it. That is the whole post. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/07/ufo-...

Fair.

I don't know what prompted this, but this is an evergreen sentiment.

ICYMI: This explainer does a great job of visualizing and personalizing rank choice voting.

Anyone else looking for a bit of professional development this summer? I'll see you there for this free event.

New blog post: This one hits differently during a heat wave. Explain rank choice voting to your students using ice cream flavor preference. This interactive explainer from @cnn.com was inspired by the NYC mayoral primaries. notawfulandboring.blogspot.com/2025/06/rank...

A gem from @xkcd.com

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend”

Full emails below