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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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Article 10 mins
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...statistics can often be used to describe a population by comparing, for instance, different age ranges. For example, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that around 15.1% of people aged 18 years and over in the UK have smoked cigarettes. Of the constituent countries and Northern Ireland, 14.9% of adults in England smoked; for Wales, this figure was 16.1%;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...statistics in Box 1 imply that in many families physical activity may not be considered a priority. However, should we accept these statistics as being accurate or should we look more deeply into this survey to question the information we are presented with? The next activity will help you begin to formulate a critical approach to evaluating research. Activity 2...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Explainer: how do you read an election poll?
Society, Politics & Law

Explainer: how do you read an election poll?

...statistical trade. The point is that the pollsters didn’t ask everyone. They may have been unlucky with their sampling and just happened, by chance, to get rather fewer SNP supporters in their sample than are found in the whole electorate. For a typical poll with 1,000 people, the margin of error would be about 3 percentage points. The exact meaning of this is a bit...
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Article 10 mins
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...Statistical analysis suggested that males showed greater neural connectivity within each brain hemisphere, while female brains demonstrated greater connectivity across hemispheres. Here, apparently, was scientific proof of the fundamentally dichotomous nature of human gender. A storm of media attention ensued. [An illustration of the brain] In many respects, the PNAS...
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Article 10 mins
Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...statistics about migration to June 2018] IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 40,073 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea through the first 24 weeks of 2018. That total compares to 80,683 at this time last year, and over 215,000 at this time in 2016. [Graphic supporting the text] In other words: Mediterranean arrivals at this point in 2018 are running at...
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Article 5 mins
Promoting equality through the Arts
History & The Arts

Promoting equality through the Arts

...statistics. The 2011 census reports that people of BAME origin made up 26% of the population of the Borough of Milton Keynes and 18.5% of people living here were born outside of the UK. In addition to those recruited by Ursula, Milton Keynes residents who were walking through centre:mk on the days of the filming were also invited to take part, adding to the diversity of...
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Article 20 mins
How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...Statistics and facts on the communications industry taken from Ofcom research publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y.,...
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Article 10 mins