may sing to tune of 1980 Eddie Schwartz’s
“Hit Me With Your Best Shot”(#9 hit for Pat Benatar)
appears on page 22 of the Spring 2011 issue of Teaching Statistics
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9639.2010.00430.x/pdf
Well you’re a real
tough cookie in statistics class,
Doin’ just average enough to pass.
That’s OK, just
don’t fit a line
‘Til you view the data you’re assigned!
CHORUS: Hit me
with your best plot!
Why
don’t you hit me with your best plot?
Hit
me with your best plot – graph away!
Come on, you know graphs gotta look fair--
Like pictogram areas showin’ their share.
Let zero be where the y-axis
starts
And don’t have a graph
with unlabeled parts! (Repeat
Chorus)
Temperature data held a clue:
Cold could mean trouble if
the Challenger flew--
But they did the launch and
an O-ring blew.
Don’t let disaster
happen to you! (Repeat Chorus)
I wrote the following new third verse just in time for
the
banquet of the 2013 United States Conference on
Teaching Statistics:
Well Hans Rosling
took our long history
And animated data so we could
see
What’s a trend or a
special case
As nations move through time
and space!