Larry Lesser of The University of Texas at El Paso repurposed Madonna’s signature song (and #2 hit), “Material Girl,” to teach the empirical rule.
just for fun
Square It!
For students to appreciate why line of best fit is generally implemented by minimizing the sum of the squares of the errors, JSE Editor Michelle Everson suggested that The University of Texas at El Paso’s Lawrence Lesser write a parody of “Beat It.”
