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The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...statistical evidence produced. Activity 3 iPad kids Timing: Allow 30 minutes Read the article ‘iPad Kids’ at risk of long-term poor health as parents struggle to wean children off gadgets and then answer the following question: What are the three key statistical points that you feel this article contributes to the screen time versus physical activity debate?...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...statistical measures characterising the location of a batch of data (the median and the mean), and looks further at weighted means and at the interquartile range as a measure of spread (variability). Boxplots and stemplots are used to picture the data. All this is done in the context of measuring prices, and the course also covers the concept of a price index, and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Even Brexit backers can’t make the sums work for UK to quit EU
Society, Politics & Law

Even Brexit backers can’t make the sums work for UK to quit EU

...Statistics estimates population growth to be 0.8% per year (until 2027). The growth rate of GDP per person can be expressed as the growth rate of GDP minus the growth rate of population. The total impact of Brexit on GDP, according to the winning essay is +0.1% and the growth rate of population is +0.8%. Hence the total impact of Brexit on a per person basis according to...
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Article 10 mins
The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...statistical problem with a biased poll so long as it is consistently biased – that is, in the same direction and by about the same amount. This makes it easy to de-bias. And yet, the RealClearPolitics poll average takes this one at face value, simply adding it to the pool to produce an overall average. Because of the peculiarity of the American election system, however,...
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Article 5 mins
LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQ youth and homelessness: We can all make a difference

...statistics in terms of trans people are even more sobering, with the UK’s LGBTQ charity, Stonewall, concluding “Hate crime and discrimination against trans people, on our streets, in our hospitals, in workplaces and at universities, is widespread” (p. 3). Unfortunately, abuse and hostility towards LGBTQ youth also occurs in the home, in an environment where all...
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Article 5 mins
Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lesbian, gay and bisexual teenagers at much greater risk of depression

...statistically significant, meaning the difference is larger than can reasonably be explained as a chance occurrence. This finding would suggest that much more needs to be done to address the mental health needs of young lesbian and bisexual females. When LGB young people were compared to young people who are still questioning their own sexuality, the differences between...
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Article 5 mins
Forgotten families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forgotten families

...statistics indicate that 65% of boys with a parent in prison are more likely to go on to offend, although this data somewhat oversimplifies the complex relationship between parental imprisonment and childhood experiences. Despite such findings, children are not systematically identified and recorded when a parent goes to prison, and they remain a forgotten and largely...
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Article 3 hrs
If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?
Digital & Computing

If Wannacry caused so much disruption, how come it raised so little money?

...statistic that Trend Micro found was that in one in five cases, even when the company paid the ransom, they were unable to recover their important files – indicating that the ransomware service is not quite as robust as it should be. If you ask many security professionals, the recent WannaCry ransomware was fairly easy to defend against, and was fairly unsophisticated....
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Article 5 mins