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Online mathematics discovery centre
Science, Maths & Technology

Online mathematics discovery centre

...Data, finance, economics and more. It is a fundamental tool enabling us to analyse and comprehend the world around us, and to solve some of the most urgent problems facing society in today’s complex world. Maths is a varied and broad subject which crops up everywhere and when you least expect it. See the patterns, structures, discoveries, applications and people of...
Everyday maths: statistics in the news
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths: statistics in the news

...we see or hear. By the end of this activity, you will learn: how to read and ask questions about health data and reports in the news how to look at graphs and charts, and make sure they don't mislead you general rules to follow when looking at statistics in the news. [Activity banner image. Everyday maths: statistics in the news.] Everyday maths: statistics in the news...
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...data in the following table. It gives the temperatures of five cities on a Monday in January. CITY TEMPERATURE London 0°C Paris –1°C Madrid 10°C Delhi 28°C Moscow –10°C a.Which city was the coldest? b.Which city was the warmest? c.How many cities have a temperature below 5°C? You buy a jumper for £24 and a skirt for £18. How much do you spend altogether? You...
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Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology

...towards critical analysis and knowledge application in the latter blocks. The wide range of real-life topics draw on crime, harm and justice, and include terrorism, corporate crime, occupy movements, the dark web, poverty, imprisonment and human trafficking. Where next? To experience a free taster of these modules, why not check out their related OpenLearn courses?...
People, automobiles and statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

People, automobiles and statistics

...data was obtained the sex of the participants from whom the data were obtained four columns of figures describing the mean, standard deviation and the 5th and 95th percentiles the source of the survey – this turns out to be vital since some of the data is taken from quite narrow sections of the population. The main part of the handbook, which is section 7, uses this...
Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...analysis, including into how to improve the quality, storage and distribution of British and colonial produce. It was set up with the Secretary of State for the Colonies (then Leopold Amery) as its Chairman, with a civil servant (Stephen Tallents, Sir Stephen from 1932) as its Secretary. But it also employed people from the media, advertising and commercial world more...
Anghydraddoldebau hiliol mewn iechyd: Effaith COVID-19 yng Nghymru a thu hwnt
Health, Sports & Psychology

Anghydraddoldebau hiliol mewn iechyd: Effaith COVID-19 yng Nghymru a thu hwnt

...analysis of national surveillance data using Onomap, a name-based ethnicity classification tool. BMJ Open. 2021 Awst 18;11(8):e048335. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34408047/ Karl Murray (2020) The impact of COVID-19 on BAME Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations in Wales: Innovation, Resilience and Sustainability Saltus, R (2020) Holding on to the gains:...
Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business
Society, Politics & Law

Can quotas make gender equality happen in politics? Lessons from business

...analysis of a data we’ve collected using interviews on Labour’s use of all-women shortlists points towards some optimistic but also some depressing conclusions. The positive: gender equality advocates have won a series of pitched battles to get all-women selections for the safest parliamentary seats. These have sometimes been bitter, with an early setback in the Welsh...