How much do rainbows weigh? Not much. They're pretty light. #statsjokepoll

I've always liked this joke. It was unexpectedly polarizing. That was also a rainbow joke.

What's brown and sticky? A stick. #statsjokepoll

This joke was fairly new to me but apparently it's old and tired and it flopped.

We're at the point in class now that we can talk about these as probability distributions. Really looking forward to hypothesis testing.

#statsjokepoll What's the difference between a well dressed man on a unicycle and a poorly dressed man on a bike? Attire!

This is a new behavior. Huge spike at 4, low sd at 1.04. This seems to be an objectively above average joke.

I give my stats class a daily joke to rate from 1 to 5 and post the results #statsjokepoll. The idea is to generate data sets to analyze, and to break up the class a bit.

But this has me thinking about the nature of humor, e.g. what kind of joke would give a uniform distribution? #mathchat

What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhinoceros?

Elephino!

I got that one from the Muppets. Highest mean yet (3.73). #statsjokepoll

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Interesting class discussion from a #statsjokepoll using the World's Funniest Joke. The poll matched the project's result with the highest mean so far but more from nobody hating it than everyone loving it. This is really the World's Least Unfunny Joke, which isn't the same thing. Joke in alt text

I asked my German friend if he knew how many innings were in a baseball game. He said, "No."

The most successful #statsjokepoll yet, which is reassuring because I love this joke. Distribution was what I was rooting for -- generally liked, but some people just didn't get it.

What has five toes and isn't my foot? Your foot. #statsjokepoll

We calculated the mean and median in class. I don't think I'll tell my 12-year-old, who insisted I use this joke.

#statsjokepoll from last week: What is orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot. It did alright.