In undergraduate laboratories we frequently ask the student to use error theory to evaluate his results without giving him the opportunity to measure and analyze a large statistical sample to see how well it follows theoretical models. In the experiment described here, the student investigates the statistics of a set of resistors. In the process he gets some practice in the use and interpretation of histograms, and gains some insight into the relation of the Gaussian error curve and a real statistical distribution as well as the significance of standard deviation and standard error..