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Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...statistical analysis of observational data (e.g. the temperature measurements that feed into estimates of GMST). Where IPCC scientists were unable to estimate and quantify the uncertainties in their conclusions in this way, they adopted a ' likelihood' language, originally proposed by Moss and Schneider. This was intended to convey their level of confidence in the...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...statistics - In this section you will look at the people behind the labels and statistics and then hear about the work of the Scottish Refugee Council. Activity 2 The people behind the statistics Timing: 20 minutes Watch the video ‘We slept on the buses: Britain’s homeless children’ (The Guardian, 2017) and think about how it makes you feel. Make notes in the box...
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...Statistics, online http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/inform/ (accessed November 2004) Energy and Environment Programme, Environmental Change Unit (ECU) (1997) DECADE Transforming the UK Cold Market, University of Oxford. Furnival, J. (1998) Suck, Don't Blow, The Gripping Story of the Vacuum Cleaner and other Labour Saving Machines around the House, London: Michael O'Mara....
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...statistical analysis modelled on it to engage in the careful measurement of phenomena. Positivists favour quantitative data. Positivists seek causal or statistical relationships among variables. Because of this, ontologically, people and their behaviours are considered variables. Positivists treat individuals as separate units, as the objects or subjects of a study....
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...statistics that suggest that girls are less likely than boys to commit violent crimes). In the final two pictures, however, vulnerability and innocence have gone and been replaced with images of children as threatening and dangerous. The fact that they are male might encourage the conclusion that they are violent. Their age is also significant. Teenagers are more likely...
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...statistics, annual official statistics on judicial diversity in England and Wales covering the current judiciary, judicial appointments and legal professions. London: Ministry of Justice. Byrne v Deane [1937] 2 All ER 204 Cambridge Water v Eastern Counties Leather [1994] 2 WLKR 53 Collins v Wilcock [1984] 1 WLR 1177 Rylands v Fletcher (1865) 3 H&C 774 Sim v Stretch [1936]...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...statistics any longer because the only statistics that are actually being kept are those who are on the register. So if your child isn’t on the register you don’t even appear in the workload of a local authority once you are weeded out. So, all those people have to find a way of putting their lives back together with all the drain that that has on GPs and hospitals...
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...statistics? We think our towns grow like weeds, but London seems to grow half such a weed as Chicago in a single night. After we were got well into the town, we found ourselves part of an immense bicycle parade, with bicyclers of both sexes on their wheels, in masks and costumes, Pierrots, and Clowns, and Harlequins and Columbines, in a competition for the prettiest and...