• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About Statistics Teacher
Statistics Teacher

Statistics Teacher

Supporting the Teaching and Learning of Statistics

  • Submissions
  • Articles
    • 9-12+
    • 6-8
    • K-5
  • Announcements
  • Lesson Plans
    • Lesson Plans
    • Lesson Plan Archive
  • Resources
    • Free Webinars
    • Posters
    • Publications
    • Supplemental
  • Events

Dr. Darren Deering

How to Lie (to Congress) with Statistics

September 15, 2017

By Kirk Anderson and Mary Richardson, Grand Valley State University On September 17, 2014, testimony was given at a House Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Committee hearing. Participants included a member of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas), and the chief of staff for the Phoenix VA Health Care System, Dr. Darren Deering. Rep. Huelskamp took issue with … [Read more...] about How to Lie (to Congress) with Statistics

Primary Sidebar

EDITORS’ NOTE

Student Competitions

  • ASA Data Visualization Poster Competition
  • Virtual Science Fair
  • ASA Statistics Project Competition

Categories

Archives

Archives (1982-2016)

Most-Often Used Keywords

9-12 announcements AP Statistics ASA awards BAPS Catherine Case Census at School classroom CODAP Common Core COVID-19 data Data collection data science Data Visualization data visualization poster competition education GAISE GAISE II high school inference k-12 education k-12+ lesson plan lesson plans middle school MWM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics NCTM p-value poster competition probability resources SET statistical literacy Statistics statistics education STEM STEW technology ThisIsStatistics Virtual Science Fair WGOITG What's Going on in This Graph?

Footer

About

Statistics Teacher (ST) is an online journal published by the American Statistical Association (ASA) – National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Joint Committee on Curriculum in Statistics and Probability for Grades K-12. ST supports the teaching and learning of statistics through education articles, lesson plans, announcements, professional development opportunities, technology, assessment, and classroom resources. Authors should use this form to submit articles or lesson plans.

Contact

Contact the Statistics Teacher editors for further information or to volunteer to write or review content.

Copyright © 2026 · American Statistical Association