Using GenAI to generate teachable data sets (here, an independent t test)

Two things I love to use when teaching stats are:1) Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) visual abstracts. I've blogged about them before.2) Useful tools to generate pretend data sets that mimic real data, and use those pretend data sets to teach. See: Richard Landers' and Andrew Luttrell's websites.So, I was delighted when I saw this recently posted visual abstract about Ewing-Cobbs et al. (2026) research on using a specific CBT program to reduce stress in children following a traumatic physical injury. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2848163I have a new example of an independent t test for class. Yay! And I teach tons of future nurses/PAs, so it is doubly applicable.However, the authors stated that the data wasn't immediately available. Also, once it is available, they (very reasonably) want to track their data sharing. Meaning that even if I could get their data, I shouldn't be sharing it on this blog.I decided to create a dataset that…