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The Open University's Carbon Calculator
Nature & Environment

The Open University's Carbon Calculator

...statistics, by 2019 total UK consumption-based emissions were 774 million tonnes CO2e (Figure 1) meaning that the average carbon footprint was about 11.6 tonnes CO2e/person/year. By 2022 the average footprint is estimated to have fallen to about 11.3 tonnes CO2e/person/year. [A graph illustrating UK carbon emissions]Figure 1 Greenhouse gas emissions associated with UK...
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North Sea, air safety and Brexit
Nature & Environment

North Sea, air safety and Brexit

...statistics when working on one of the deep-water platforms. Before each trip I remember an adrenalin-fed focus that took in every word of the flight safety briefing. That’s still how it’s done, even for seasoned oil-workers. Over those last four decades, accidents have claimed the lives of around 130 oil staff and flight crew. While the total fatal and non-fatal...
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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...statistical analysis determines to some extent the amount of data that needs to be collected, the amount of data collected in qualitative methods is based on the principle of reaching a saturation point – the point at which no new information is obtained when further data are collected. The interviews by Mofokeng and van der Wath (2017) centred on one question, ‘What...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...statistics and reports from external sources may help you to analyse the financial implications and potential economic risks of the organisational changes you wish to implement. External secondary data can originate from a variety of sources, such as commercial organisations, government agencies and industry associations, and take the form of annual reports, laws and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters
Society, Politics & Law

LGBTQIA rights: why The Good Friday Agreement matters

...statistics reported by the PSNI show the highest levels of homophobic and transphobic hate crimes in Northern Ireland to date. [Why the Good Friday Agreement was important for LGBTQIA+ rights: Pride Parade in Belfast. Photograph.] Why the Good Friday Agreement was not the finish line There has never been a better time to be LGBTQIA+ in Northern Ireland, but true equality...
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What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...Statistics, 97(1). Dave, H.P., Mesarosova, K., Siegling, A.B., Tremblay, P.F. and Saklofske, D.H. (2019) ‘Assessing locus of control in pilots: Psychometric evaluation of a self-report measure’, Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, 9(1), pp. 24–30. Jones, J.W. and Wuebker, L.J. (1993) ‘Safety locus of control and employees' accidents’, Journal of...
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Are you a secret hoarder?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are you a secret hoarder?

...Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In extreme cases the hoarder accumulates and refuses to discard to the extent ordinary activities, such as eating and sleeping, are interfered with as every surface becomes inundated with objects. However, research shows that it is too easy to say that these people just collect junk because they are lazy, disorganised or even...
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DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...statistical case for identifying who a DNA sample may belong to. It is considered that there is only a one in a one-billion chance of two individuals having the same patterns of short tandem repeats within the DNA regions. The only exception to this is identical siblings, which share that the same DNA sequences. To be able to analyse the short tandem repeats within in DNA...
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