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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...statistics, alleging selection bias and has written ‘The Spirit Level Delusion’ – you can see it here. The Spirit Level revisited...Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?: 8 The global picture - To end this week, you will read a statement from the UN, who highlighted why it is vital to remain focused on personal, real lives when thinking about the changing,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...statistical data appears to provide strong justification for the ‘othering’, but the statistics could just as easily be presented to emphasise that only a relatively small minority of Muslims express any sympathy for ‘jihadists’. This reinforces the studies cited by Pantazis and Pemberton, which found that coverage of Muslims/Islam was very often framed in terms...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...statistics which provide some basic information. Activity 2 Examine Table 1 carefully. Make notes on what you can gather about participation, dropout and completion, and about differences between the groups identified. As you do so, think about the kinds of explanations you would expect to find for the differences between social groups in patterns of participation and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...Statistics (2017) state ‘in 2017, 21.7% of those who graduated before 1992 were overeducated, whereas the corresponding figure for those who graduated in 2007 or later was 34.2%’. These figures indicate that the population is becoming educated to a higher level as time progresses. Henseke et al. (2018) indicate that, since 2006, in Britain generic work-based skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...Statistics (ONS) by following the link below which you should open in a new tab. Remember with life expectancy you may well live longer than the average. For example, the average life expectancy for a woman aged 65 today is 88 years, but she has a 1 in 4 chance of living to 94, and more than a 1 in 20 chance of celebrating her 100th birthday. So it is best to be cautious...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...statistical basis. RH: You did that as an economist? That would normally be a physical science exercise. RT: I did it as a statistician, I would say, rather than an economist. RH: So you were one of the people that helped prove that human fingerprint was on climate change? RT: We were the first to show that in a statistically sound way. RH: Congratulations. I think...
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Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...statistics on solar power and renewables generally, but particularly solar, we see that they’re still just a tiny, tiny penetration in terms of the amount of megawatts of power produced, just a few percent, even in a country like Bangladesh which is very sunny, and when there’s heavy penetration of solar in the rural market, but he says this actually creates a...
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Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...Statistics...Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: visualise problems using pictures and diagrams recognise patterns in a variety of different situations use a word formula to help solve a problem derive simple word formulas, for example for use in a spreadsheet use doing and undoing diagrams to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs