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Cause, Correlation or Coincidence - Analysing Data Effectively

Michael Albanese

8th May 2016

To help students analyse data more vigorously, I’ve put together a lesson inspired by a chapter in Freakonomics, along with an intriguing BBC article. In it, students become detectives and have to ascertain the cause of the unexpected crime-drop in 1990s New York.

Michael Albanese

Assistant Curriculum Lead for Business and Law at Solihull Sixth Form College

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