Who wants to be...The Use of a Personal Response System in Statistics Teaching

In the popular TV programme Who wants to be a millionaire? the candidates can ask the audience to help them with difficult questions. The audience picks up its handsets and votes for several possible answers. The votes are anonymous and show up as a bar chart on the screen with percentages for the different answers. Essentially it is this technology and the implementation thereof in a statistics course taught to non-statistics undergraduate students that is central to this article.…