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Mr Brewin’s GCSE Stats – Worksheet Answers

Here’s the answers for the worksheets I gave you for Christmas!

Enjoy

Mr Brewin’s Y10 Stats GCSE

As promised, some links you can explore over the weekend to do with reaction times:

http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/index.php
This site gives a simple on screen test with the top 100 results recorded.

http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/explrsci/media/reflex.htm
This site provides a simple test for sight and sound.

http://www.break.com/index/sheepshooting.html
This game gives you times based on recognising movement.

http://reflex.sosocial.net/reactionbutton.php
Start/Stop button test

http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html
Traffic Light test. Top 5 scores are available for [...]

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Mr Brewin’s S1 – The Spirit Level

The slides I was talking about are embedded below. They are from a debate between the authors of The Spirit Level (you can buy it here) and their detractors (who have been shown to be wrong, and wanting to dispute the evidence for ideological reasons). The audio of the debate can be found here.
Peter Saunders [...]

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Mr Brewin’s Y12 S1 – Correlation

The powerpoint on correlation and PMCC can be found here.

The ‘Joy of Stat’s programme I was talking about is on iPlayer here (need to watch it soon as it’ll soon expire) and the ‘More or Less’ podcast can be found on their website too. Well worth listening to.

Mr Brewin’s GCSE Stats Group – Practice Sheets

I’ve uploaded three sheets of practice questions to help strengthen any weak areas from the test on chapter 4.

Variand and Standard Deviation

Range and IQR (Finding Quartiles)

Index Numbers

Hope they’re useful. Answers here.

Mr Brewin’s GCSE Stats – Sample Coursework Etc.

Here are some of the documents you might want to have a look at to help with your coursework:

Sample Coursework

Coursework Write-up Guide

Mayfield High Data Spreadsheet

Hope that’s helpful!

Mr Brewin’s GCSE Stats

Here’s the presentations for you to have a look at over the summer – sorry the site has been down for a few days!

Populations and Samples

Collecting Data

Have a great holiday – and have a think about what you’d like to do for your projects!

KB

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Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats

Here’s the slides on Regression that we covered today. Becky and Deola – if you could have a look at them and have a go at Ex 7A before next lesson that would be much appreciated.

Also, here’s the worked solutions to the special homework of exam questions on probability. Have a look through them to [...]

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