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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. So, why all the fuss about revising a manual for psychiatric diagnosis?...[Seated young man hiding his head between his legs] Sadness May 2013 sees the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This publication, produced by the American Psychiatric Association, is the result...
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Why EU nationals in Britain are hurrying to get one piece of paper
Society, Politics & Law

Why EU nationals in Britain are hurrying to get one piece of paper

...statistics to emerge, the government has been preparing in order to avoid a backlog. Data from before the referendum showed a rise in applications. During the first two quarters of 2016, official data showed that the government received 64,282 valid applications by citizens of the European Economic Area (which includes EU countries as well as Norway, Iceland and...
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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...statistics and is often presented in the form of graphs and tables. Qualitative evidence is about the quality of things, like what it feels like to be a victim of crime. Qualitative evidence is usually concerned with words and images and is presented in the form of reports, analysis of interviews, autobiographical accounts, or documentary photographs. Qualitative...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...statistics, and produced a major scientific study. He also found creative ways of representing statistical information in graphics which are admired to this day. To give people a realistic sense of African American lives, he used both a plain factual way of writing and a descriptive style of writing full of rich imagery. Du Bois famously commented in his collection of...
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Large language models - the chatty computer
Digital & Computing

Large language models - the chatty computer

...statistical relationships between words in the training set. In the case of ChatGPT, this eventually amounted to some 175 billion relationships derived from 45 terabytes of text. Given the enormous volumes of data being processed, most of this training process is completely automated; running for months on giant clusters of computers consuming colossal amounts of energy....
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Seven myths of being a female engineer
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven myths of being a female engineer

...statistical paper published by the Women’s Engineering Society, “Girls are now more likely than boys to achieve high A*-B grades across nearly all STEM GCSE subjects (sometimes spectacularly so, e.g. in D&T where 49.9% of female entrants achieve A*-B compared to 29.4% of male entrants, and in Engineering, where the respective figures are 36.8% girls and 17.3% boys...
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Retail management and marketing
Money & Business

Retail management and marketing

...why they are a preferred alternative to the high street. The Internet debate Experts discuss the internet tools available to retailers. The retail sector in 2020 How technology has changed and drives retail and consumerism, and the use of statistics and date. The future of retail management Businesses reflect on what the future hold for them and where they might be....
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Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...Statistics at The Open University, interviews science integrity expert Dr Elisabeth Bik...[Photo of Dr Elisabeth Bik] Dr Elisabeth Bik Dr. Elisabeth Bik is a microbiologist and world-renowned scientific integrity expert. After receiving her PhD at Utrecht University in The Netherlands, where she worked on epidemic Vibrio cholerae strains, Dr Bik conducted research on the...
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