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Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...communicate information are to make the data immediately clear, and to facilitate picking out important patterns in them with the minimum of effort. To this end, there are several guidelines for producing tables which should be borne in mind. Guidelines for tables Labelling of rows and columns should be clear and unambiguous. A table should contain the minimum amount of...
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...community in which 87 per cent of children live below the official poverty line. With no work available nearby, Tamarla Owens joined the daily bus-full of workers who went to service the affluent residents of Oakland County in return for US$5.50 (about £3) an hour. Dick Clarke's restaurant chain sought special tax breaks for its service to the community in placing people...
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...communicate through microphones (see Figure 2). The experimenter reveals that the study is designed to investigate the effect of punishment on learning. The ‘teacher’ will be asked to administer an electric shock to the ‘learner’ every time the latter makes an incorrect response on the memory task. [Described image] Figure 2 The layout of the experiment at the...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...community. This year, during COVID, I’ve returned to it to see if it would conjure the landscape and offer the same immersion. It drew me in once more. I hope this course allows you to explore some similar ideas about your own favourite books from childhood. GRAHAM PIKE I’m Graham Pike, one of the course authors. And my favourite book is Miss Smilla’s Feeling for...
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...communicate this. People use numbers to solve a wide variety of different problems, including when designing buildings, navigating and working out the fuel consumption of an aircraft. These examples all use measurements that involve distance and it is these types of situations this week will be concentrating on. For this, it is important that you have a working knowledge...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...communicate) the value you add to those more distant colleagues in your organisation (including leadership teams) by widening your appreciation of your own capabilities (and potential capabilities), puts you in a stronger position to seize opportunities to develop yourself, your team and your organisation. Recognising the value others across the organisation contribute:...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...Community. For the fate of the ‘regions’ depends not just on the nation-states of which they are a part: it cannot be separated from the future of the European Community (EC) itself. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of Level 1 study in Geography...A Europe of the Regions?: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: recognise the...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...communication as part of the early modern (Kümin, 2014, p. 2)...Early modern Europe: an introduction: 3 What do we mean by Europe? - Before you examine the characteristic features of the early modern period in Europe, you need to think about what we mean by ‘Europe’. It is difficult to know exactly where to draw the boundaries of the continent: while the northern,...