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Pupils should be taught to infer properties of populations or distributions from a sample, whilst knowing the limitations of sampling

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• Pin Drop Estimate the probability of a drawing pin landing point up from experimental data.

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• "A survey is carried out by asking people questions as they come out of a coffee bar." ... more
• "Jimmy is ordering the t-shirts for the community choir which has 240 members." ... more
• "Donna is in a class of 25 students, 5 of whom have a pet dog." ... more

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• Statistics Statistics is the study of the collection, organisation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of data, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. It also includes describing mathematical relationships between variables and presenting these to an audience in a way that best conveys meaning. See also the topics called Data Handling, Probability and Averages.