SPSS

Statistical Package for Social Sciences. That’s what SPSS stands for. But look at what some students of mine had wrote instead in a recent exam. They totally butchered the actual name with their misapplied creativity.

Come have a look at some samples that had me in stitches in one moment, and clenching my teeth in the next: from one that is syntactically challenged ….

Statistical Program Statistical Student

… to ones with haphazard guesses of the P …

Scientific Processor for Social Sciences
Special Programme for Statistical Sciences
Statistical Purpose for Social Science
Statistic Perimeter Social Science

… to ones with heart-attack-inducing play on the S’s …

Smart Psychological Statistics System
Systematic Principle for Statistics Solution
Simple Psychological Statistical Solution
Statistic for Psychology Students Sillabus

…and one with an unexplained addition of a B.

Statistical Program for Behavioural Science Students

To this wonderful list, I offer my expansion of the SPSS acronym to sum up my impression of the students who had contributed to the list:

Students Psychology Syok Sendiri