Sullivan Statistics

Reproducibility of Research

The article below discusses how much of the scientific research that folks in the media,...
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Question Wording in Polls

The folks at Pew Research have a video that explains how they word their questions...
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Beware the Lurking Variable

I just completed the discussion on correlation and regression with my Introductory Statistics students. One...
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The General’s Dilemma

Today I am going to do “The General’s Dilemma” activity in my Intro Stats class....
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The Story of Guinness

Pricenomics is a nice website to visit periodically for interesting studies and articles that you...
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Fooled by Randomness

Here is a link to a short article on randomness. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-08/how-not-to-be-fooled-by-randomness
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Interactive Stats 2e

George Woodbury and I have been very busy these past few months putting together the revision...
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New York Times Monthly Stats Feature

The American Statistical Association has partnered with the New York Times Learning Network to promote...
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Quartiles and Boxplots

I just finished teaching Chapter 3 of my text today.  To introduce the idea of...
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First Week of Classes

Classes have already started here at Joliet Junior College.  Last week we had our opening...
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