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Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...statistical analysis of the results is important because noting the change in one person given a specific treatment is not as valid as noting the same change in two or three people and ideally in a much larger group. The clinical trials that occur today to test new drugs may consist of hundreds of participants. The number of participants or sample size of an experiment is...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...statistical investigations with learners. You might find it useful to read that section before carrying out this investigation in your classroom. [An orange handprint on a white wall] Figure 16 A giant’s handprint Activity 12 Reflecting Timing: Allow 10 minutes a.What do the learners need to know? b.What do they need to find out? c.How does this problem relate to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...statistics...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: 1.3 Assessing risk - Engineers and other professionals need to be able to assess potential risks. This is the first stage in the process of deciding which risks are acceptable. This in turn allows priorities to be assigned to developing and implementing strategies to reduce risks. What types of risk might you look...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...Statistics’ discovery that GDP in cash terms was £18 billion – smaller it they had previously thought. This means fewer tax revenues are forecast to come in over the next five years. The Chancellor made three fiscal pledges to cap welfare, reduce debt as a share of GDP and deliver a budget surplus by 2019-20. The first two promises are out of the window, so to avoid...
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Article 10 mins
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...statistics – the kind that are so bad it is difficult to know how to receive them. The world's richest 500 people own more wealth than the poorest 416 million. And it is not just a problem of the super-rich: Europeans spend more on perfume each year that the $7billion needed to provide 2.6 billion people with access to clean water. London is a crucial node in the...
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Article 15 mins
Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...Statistics Office (CSO) in April 2022, about 13% of the Irish population are foreign born (CSO, 2022). While people from Ireland continue to make their way to America in search of adventure and greater opportunity, Ireland, like the United States, has itself become a nation of immigrants with the attraction of lucrative careers and a much sought after lifestyle. The...
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Article 5 mins
CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings
Education & Development

CARE-KNOW-DO for Social and Emotional Learning: building children’s resilience and agency in crisis settings

...A. et. al. (2025, under review). Transforming Catch-Up Education in Emergency Contexts: From Practice to Theory Grounded in Children’s Experiences UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2017). More than one-half of children and adolescents are not learning worldwide. https://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/fs46-more-than-half-children-not-learning-en-2017.pdf...
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Article 5 mins
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...statistics. CHANELLE MYRIE There are lots of reasons why young Black men are being sectioned more. One reason is that Black men come to the mental health system later than their white counterparts, and that's for fear of being hospitalized, fear of being stigmatized. They arrive at hospital at crisis point, really. DAVID HAREWOOD Let me just-- I'm going to go to for my...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs