To celebrate last month’s National Limerick Day, Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso wrote these original statistical limericks:

Lottery Strategy
The lottery numbers you choose
Won’t change your chance to lose,
But if all 6 match
You’ll get much more cash
If you picked what’s picked by few!

Simpson’s Paradox
When categories combine,
Sometimes you will find
What had trended
Now upended:
New correlation sign!

Significance
When doing hypothesis tests,
No threshold value is best.
It’s very contrived
To use point-oh-five
To say if you should be impressed!