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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...statistically, given the vastness of the Universe, intelligent life is unlikely to have evolved just once. I might respond by saying that, if there were intelligent alien life, we would have come into contact with it by now. Philosophers like to represent people’s reasons for what they think as arguments. An argument involves one or more claims, called premises, which...
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Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...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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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...statistical evidence, and academic research is still in its infancy. While researching for this project it was obvious that more research and evaluation is necessary to ascertain the impact of hiring African and Caribbean coaches to their national teams in comparison to White coaches from the Global North. It is only in recent times that coaches of African and Caribbean...
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Stefan Szymanski on the business of football
Money & Business

Stefan Szymanski on the business of football

...statistic which measures the percentage of variation in league position that is captured by wage spending, so a value of 90% is a very strong signal of a significant relationship between wages and league standing. Likewise, the relationship between average league position and revenues, again expressed relative to the average of all other clubs, is very close indeed. Over...
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English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...statistical information about how many people in the world speak the language. Latest estimates suggest that English is currently spoken by between 1500 and 2000 million people, in hundreds of countries, and operates as the main form of communication in important domains such as global business and science. It is precisely because of statistics such as these that some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...statistical machine translation. This method used frequency and probability rather than rules or examples to produce translations. In 2006, Google Translate launched, bringing machine translation to anyone with an internet connection. Despite advancements, statistical methods had issues with fluency and accuracy. The breakthrough came with artificial intelligence. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...statistics suggested that crime was increasing. A debate about the benefits of imprisoning criminals, rather than executing them, developed. Interest grew in building prisons where prisoners might learn remorse and self-improvement. [This is a black and white illustration of a group of rioters setting a building alight. Flames leap from the windows of the brick-faced...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...statistics and spoken words...Why maps are made: 3.3 Maps and the modern world - Maps play a fundamental role in the functioning of modern Western societies. They are important as legal documents in both the public and private spheres: your proof of the boundaries of your property as well as the location of international borders. Maps are important in military campaigns,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs