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OU on the BBC: More Or LessUpdated contentCopyrighted Image Jayziac | Dreamstime.com

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

18 May 2012

BBC Radio 4's surprising and refreshing guide to statistics returns.  Read more : OU on the BBC: More Or Less

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Statistics and the lawInnershadows | Dreamstime.com

By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

12 April 2011

With clean-up rates and reoffending numbers, discussions of crime often circle back to statistics. But are these 'facts' really such reliable witnesses?  Read more : Statistics and the law

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Darwin and statistics Featuring: video, Creative Commons Image Ex_Libris_gul via Flickr

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

19 March 2009

Little did Darwin realise, as he puzzled over the numerical data he collected, that he was laying the foundations of statistics. Kevin McConway tells the...  Read more : Darwin and statistics

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Probability compared Featuring: activity, photos.com

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

26 November 2008

Chance is a strange business. You know that you're going to die someday – you know that it's hugely unlikely that you'll be killed by...  Read more : Probability compared

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Introducing dataBBC

By The Coast web team (The Open University)

18 June 2007

Understanding the ebbs and flows of the coastline is not just about observation but also about analysing data. Data is one of those words we...  Read more : Introducing data

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AveragesBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

01 May 2007

We often quote averages, but do we really know what they are? Kevin McConway explains the difference between mean, median and mode.  Read more : Averages

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EpidemiologyBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

19 April 2007

Kevin McConway describes the study of epidemiology and looks at the factors influencing outcome and interpretations  Read more : Epidemiology

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HIV AIDS: Challenges: IntroductionBBC

By Dr Susan Fawssett (The Open University)

08 August 2006

Susan Fawssett introduces a series of articles on the challenge of HIV AIDS, including the hold it has taken in developing countries, the socio-economic impacts,...  Read more : HIV AIDS: Challenges: Introduction

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Counting the crisis: Other sourcesIndividual organisations

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

08 August 2006

To be certain about the extent of the risks we need to get our facts from more than one source. Charities, governmental statistical bodies and...  Read more : Counting the crisis: Other sources

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HIV AIDS: The ImpactSport Relief / Rhian Ap Gruffydd

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

08 August 2006

Beyond the personal tragedy of HIV AIDS, the virus has a terrible cost for developing countries  Read more : HIV AIDS: The Impact

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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