I’m rooting around in my library school files today, and I’ve found a few funnies. This one, written by me and Meredith Solomon is clearly a keeper. If you’re still in school and wondering whether that advanced research methods course is for you—I can tell you yes, yes it is.

Old statistics, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant charts
Minutes after they took I
From the null hy-poth-e-sis
But my validity was made strong
By the stats of the almighty
We deviated in this generation
Significantly.
Won’t you help to sing
These degrees of freedom
Cause all I ever have:
Degrees of freedom
Degrees of freedom.

Emancipate yourselves from threats to Validity;
None but our critical t can free our minds.
Have no fear for threats to validity,
Cause none of them can plot the line.
How long shall they reject our hypotheses,
While we calculate with our charts and books? Ooh!
Some say it’s just a part of pointlessness:
We’ve got to fill our books.

Won’t you help to sing
These degrees of freedom
Cause all I ever have
Degrees of freedom
Degrees of freedom
Degreeeeeeeeeeees of freedom.