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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...statistics: the analysis and interpretation of data. Climate science is often about searching for subtle shifts in the data...Session 1: What is ‘engineering the climate’?: 2.2 Probability of different types of weather - One analogy that reflects the idea that climate is a range of different types of weather is: … weather’s how you choose an outfit, climate’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...statistics. [Described image] Figure 4 The UK carbon footprint: GHG emissions associated with consumption 1997 to 2013, including emissions embedded in imports but not exports (total = 1050 million tonnes CO2e in 2013) (DEFRA, 2016) Study note: Stacked bar charts Figure 4 is a bar chart, another way of showing the breakdown of numerical information. This is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...statistics since ‘expected return’ and ‘mean return’ are the same thing. The expected return method is very much applicable and useful in finance – for instance, in your study of portfolio theory. An important use for expected return is when considering avoidable risk: that is, risk to which the organisation can choose whether or not to be exposed. The simplest...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...statistical analysis but because of “errors of inference”. Although a conscious brain, when imagining tennis, triggers a certain pattern of activation, it does not necessarily mean that the same pattern of activation signifies consciousness. The same brain area can be activated in many circumstances, Nachev says, with or without any conscious correlate. Moreover, he...
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Article 15 mins
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...statistics, measurement, geometry, trigonometry, and algebra. A typical list of content objectives might contain over one hundred objectives to be introduced or revisited and learned each year. These can be seen as hierarchical in nature but many textbooks do not attempt to organise the objectives in ways that enable the bigger underpinning ideas to become apparent to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...statistical methods to compare findings among different studies. A cautionary note is that not all studies are done or explained equally well; they may present several limitations that can limit the validity of the evidence presented. The larger the study is (e.g. number of people, or number of studies examining the same issue) and the more in-depth (more details are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...statistics. These use two categories of energy: Primary energy − this is essentially energy in its ‘raw’ form. Examples include crude oil before it is refined and the fuels used to generate electricity: coal, natural gas and nuclear heat. Delivered (or final) energy − this is the energy that the consumer actually receives (and pays for): refined petrol and diesel,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...statistics show that in the year to August, house prices in the capital shot up by 8.7%. One agency's recently reported that asking prices went up by more than 10% in a month. It's fuelling fears of a housing bubble and making London increasingly unaffordable for many. MILES SHIPSIDE High level of international interest; some agents report over 50% of purchases coming...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs