Statistical Sins: Not Making it Fun (A Thinly Veiled Excuse to Post a Bunch of XKCD Cartoons)

For today's post, I've decided to start pulling together XKCD cartoons corresponding to statistics/probability concepts. Why? Because there are some great ones that will liven up your presentation or lecture. Much like the Free Data Science and Statistics Resources post, this is going to be a living document.

Probability

Conditional versus unconditional: 

Outliers

Hypothesis Testing

Null: 

Black Swan problem

P-values

Control groups

P-Hacking:

Correlation

versus causation: 

spurious

direction of causality

Randomness

Looking for causes in random data:

Noise/error 

Inferring trends from limited data

Statistical artifacts

Visualizing Data

Good data display habits:

Meaningless visualizations

Scatterplots

Other Concepts

Sensitivity analysis:

Frequency of events