The Ernie Quiz

Instructions:

Test your knowledge of statistical terminology by answering the following questions about a hypothetical statistician named Ernie. Click on the single correct answer for each question.

1. Ernie is starting a stats fan club. It's called ____________.
Victims of Psych 3030
Sum of Squares

2. Ernie is buying a fancy Italian sports car known as a ____________.
Bonferroni
Ferrari

3. Ernie is seeing a Freudian analyst, and has been diagnosed as suffering from overuse of a classic defense mechanism known as ______________.
sublimation
regression

4. Ernie is dating a beautiful girl. She would like to be employed in the fashion industry, but is restricted by her small physical stature. Her problem is that she is a _____________.
reduced model
full model

5. Ernie decides to break loose. He bought himself a leather jacket and a Harley. He shook off the yoke of oppression to live as ________________.
an independent variable
a random factor

6. In his haste to exit the airplane before it crashed, Ernie grabbed the closest parachute, assuming they were all the same. In fact, they were not. Too bad for Ernie, he underestimated the risk of ______________.
a software landing
a Type II error

7. Despite the low probability, Ernie survived and went on to become a city councillor. Next, he wants to run for mayor. He says he wants it for the challenge, but what he really wants is _____________.
a bigger pension
more power

8. I went to Ernie's place for Christmas dinner. He served ________ and a Yule ________.
Tukey; log
chicken; ratio

9. Ernie went on to take three graduate degrees, a process he found quite liberating. He called his diplomas ________________.
degrees of freedom
(well-)rounding errors

10. Ernie took his girlfriend to the stats grad dance. She wore a lovely dress made of
silk
Scheffe

11. Ernie met a tragic end when one of the members of the fan club turned on him at the dance, striking him with a blunt object known as:
NWK
The SAS User's Guide

12. The killer got off on a technicality, but would forever be known in stats-land as a ____________.
Tukey test
Mean Square

Scoring Key:

Give yourself one point for each correct answer. If you got 0-5 go back to grade school. If you got 6-10, you may attend York (but you can't take Psych 3030). If you got greater than 10, go directly to graduate school. The prize for a perfect score is a chance to find out if statistical types do it with high probability.
The Ernie Quiz was prepared by the 1995/96 Survivors of Psych 3030.