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- Mostly offline. Will deal with email requests re essays, data etc. from early August on. 2010-07-28
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Which of my students are most likely to gang up against me?
I’m teaching a lecture course on Political Sociology at the moment, and because everyone is so excited about social capital and social network analysis these days, I decided to run a little online experiment with and on my students. The audience is large (at the beginning of this term, about 220 students had registered for this lecture series) and quite diverse, with some students still in their first year, others in their second, third or fourth and even a bunch of veterans who have spent most of their adult lives in university education.
Who knows whom in a large group of learners?
read more: Which of my students are most likely to gang up against me?
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-09
Is this Political Science gone mad? Tactical voting and the tabloids
Being a political scientist is not considered an exciting occupation by people who have a life, and as party conversation topics go, electoral systems are pretty lousy. But with LibDem support somewhere in the high 20s (if the polls are to be believed), normal people start to wonder why 26% of the vote should give them 12% of the seats, while 28% of the vote for Labour would amount to just under 40% of the seats (you can fiddle with the numbers at the wonderful BBC’s election pages).
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25
- Did they just turn down Gordon's microphone? #leadersdebate #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-04-25
- Did they just turn down Gordon's microphone? #leadersdebate #
Journos: Back to stats 101!
The other day, a (rather clever) student told me that she has no real need for all these stats classes, because she will be a journalist. I told her that the world would be a better place if all journalists underwent compulsory numeracy classes. Here is the proof from my favourite newspaper. How long does it take you to spot the glitch?
Young people in the East Midlands were the most down-to-earth of those surveyed, expecting an annual salary of £33,468 by the time they reached their mid-thirties. However, even this figure is still around £4,000 higher than the average.