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App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers
Nature & Environment

App zeros in on loss of equatorial glaciers

...statistics and hockey stick curves, andpolar change is hard to represent,” he says. “You can’t see or smell or taste carbon. But glaciers are a proxy for carbon, because they’re tangible.” Then came 25zero, focused on the annual UN climate negotiations known as the Conference of the Parties − or COPs, in climate jargon. Jarvis had attended one COP, and...
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Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: What does Open Methodologies mean?

...statistical methods of investigation do not only create positivistic knowledge for regressive or conservative ends; they can be used to better understand scales that are difficult to comprehend through personal experience, and so to inform critical and progressive responses. CCIG members have analysed these processes in many ways, for example, in the Mapping Refugee Media...
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Academic versus AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Academic versus AI

...statistics to create sentences that read like text written by a human being. AI can get things very wrong; it can make things up or misrepresent a topic but does it in such a way that it sounds entirely credible. We must retain our ability and willingness to question AI materials. Just because it sounds credible, doesn’t mean it is. Think you know the answer? Registered...
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Recycling: Putting consumers to work
Society, Politics & Law

Recycling: Putting consumers to work

...statistics reveal a dramatic shift in the management of household waste. Consumers across England have been called upon to separate, to wash and to squash their paper, plastics and cardboard from the rest of the waste they throw into their black bag. By sorting this waste for recycling, consumers perform vital and unpaid work which is crucial to the operation of waste...
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Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"

...statistics. See details below for full transcript.]The figures telling the story of the street fight. Live rounds and plastic bullets . Guns seized and a bomb factory discovered. The rage Chief Constable Hugh Orde had feared when he asked - do they really want to start World War 3? Text transcript STATS BELOW FROM ORDE 6 live rounds fired by police 1 live round fired by...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Antarctic ice cliff instability and sea-level predictions

...statistical modelling comes into play. It might sound boring or scary at first but it is actually a very neat technique. What we did is to develop a model which imitates the ice sheet model. A model-model if you like, but for clarity we call it an emulator instead. So this emulator uses the original ice sheet model runs to learn how it behaves and can then be used to make...
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Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK
Education & Development

Differences and Similarities: Policing in the US and the UK

...statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2019 (Accessed 11 February 2021). Inquest (2019) ‘INQUEST response to deaths in police custody statistics’. Available at: https://www.inquest.org.uk/iopc-stats-2019 (Accessed 11 February 2021). Lammy, D. (2017) The Lammy Review: An Independent Review into the Treatment of, and Outcomes for, Black, Asian and...
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The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...statistics, recording crime rates, conviction rates, the size of prison populations, and so on. Activity 4 Look at the diagram below of the numbers of recorded crimes in England and Wales between 1876 and 2000. Note what you think the key trends in the graph are, and then compare them with our commentary below. [Crimes recorded by the police, 1876–2000] Figure 6: Crimes...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs