Week Two - Asking Appropriate Questions

This week is mainly about surveying and questionnaire design and builds on the sampling concepts we covered last week.
The topics covered from the specification are almost all in section 3.1.2e (Conducting a survey/experiment), although some of the concepts from 3.1.1 (Planning a strategy) and the other areas of 3.1.2 (Data Collection) are re-visited or expanded.
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Week One - And They're Off!

This is the first week. I'm going to do a brief intro to statistics and research methods and then cover (at some length) data types and data sampling methods. The elements of the specification this should cover are:

• most of element 3.1.1 Planning a Strategy
• element 3.1.2a Types of Data
• element 3.1.2b Obtaining Data
• element 3.1.2c Census Data
• element 3.1.2d Sampling

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Image from "Manga Guide To Statistics", Shin Takahashi, 2008