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COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...social media, we can see that it arrives at this number with some very simple statistical modelling assumptions and severe extrapolations (estimating unknown values using trends in values we know already, but going far beyond the current range of values). So where did these researchers go wrong? The core analysis of this study is based on a simple regression (a...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...social or multi-stakeholder cooperatives. A multi-stakeholder cooperative, explains P2P Foundation president Michel Bauwens in an interview with Shareable magazine, can include workers, producers, consumers, owners, volunteers and community activists. “Coops should be oriented toward the common good,” Bauwens says…. “All people affected by the activity should have...
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Remembering Peter and John
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering Peter and John

...Social Sciences, we have put together collective obituaries to remember their careers supporting learners and staff of The Open University...[The OU's Berrill Building] Society Matters aims to help students of The Open University, particularly those in Social Sciences, to make connections between their studies and the wider world. It can be useful to reflect on who has...
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Studying mammals: Food for thought
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Food for thought

...social structure in both apes and humans to gain an understanding of where we come from and why we behave as we do. This is the tenth course in the Studying mammals series...Who were our ancestors? How are apes and humans related? And where does the extinct Homo erectus fit into the puzzle? In this free course, Studying mammals: Food for thought, we will examine culture,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Growing up with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Growing up with Disability

...social activities and organisations, encouraging friendships and fun. It looks at PLUS from the view of the children, the carers and the families. This material forms part of The Open University course KE312 Working together for children... Growing up with Disability A short introduction to this album. The Voluntary Organisation PLUS An introduction to the voluntary...
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Some thoughts on Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Some thoughts on Brexit

...social problems are due to excessive influx of foreigners who take our jobs and use up scarce resources such as health and housing. I take a different view. Since 2010 our finance minister (Osborne until recently) has returned to the 1930’s and instituted an economic policy regime of “austerity”. The Keynesian notion of boosting aggregate demand (and incomes and...
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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...social interactions. Changing a person's psychological state will also change the activity of their brain. A change in the underlying brain activity, for example as a consequence of traumatic brain injury or a physical illness, can change the individual’s psychological state and their behaviour. In these terms, biology is not an absolute defining criterion of when there...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
History & The Arts

Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style

...socialism proved a successful mix at the ballot box. So successful, in fact, that it managed to cost the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, his seat in Parliament. The Northern Echo of July 16th, 1895, reports: [Geoffrey Drage, MP] Geoffrey Drage in the year he entered parliament The loss of Sir William Harcourt at Derby will not be an unmixed...
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