Measures used to control enslaved Africans Colonial assemblies and individual planters used and instituted many methods that ensured that the slave population was subdued and subservient. Such methods included: Economic Control a) There was severe limitation on free time for the enslaved as free time was equated to loss of production time on the estate. As a result‚ a structure of economic dependence was created whereby enslaved Africans relied on the planter for their food‚ shelter and clothing
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Q1. (a) ‘Statistics is the backbone of decision-making’. Comment. Ans.(a) Due to advanced communication network‚ rapid changes in consumer behavior‚ varied expectations of variety of consumers and new market openings‚ modern managers have a difficult task of making quick and appropriate decisions. Therefore‚ there is a need for them to depend more upon quantitative techniques like mathematical models‚ statistics‚ operations research and econometrics. Decision making is a key part of our day-to-day
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Research‚ Statistics‚ and Psychology PSY 315 Amber Lupo November 8‚ 2010 Amber Nelson “The definition of scientific method is a method of research in which a hypothesis is tested by means of a carefully documented control experiment that can be repeated by any other researcher” (yourdictionary.com‚ 2010.) “Research is the scholarly or scientific investigation or inquiry” (American Heritage Dictionary‚ 2000.) Primary and secondary data are dependent to each other‚ but also completely
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consider Measure for Measure to be a problem play? Measure for Measure has been deemed as a ‘problem play’ due to ‘lacking humanity’ and the drastic and uneven ‘emotion and language’ throughout the play. Because of this‚ the play is constantly being addressed as ‘problematic’ by critics like Swinburne who describes the play as being ‘indefinable’ and ‘unclassifiable’. The term problem play was first made current by F.S. Boas who was the critique of Shakespeare and his Predecessors. Measure for Measure
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Evelyn Bruce Statistical Analyses BSHS 435/Research and Statistics in Human Services June 1‚ 2015 Summarization The article “Free Web-Based Statistical Analysis: A Viable Option for Human-Service Agencies‚” describe the benefits of statistical analyses to determine the appropriate web-based system for a human services agencies. The main article focuses include data analysis‚ descriptive statistics‚ inferential statistic‚ the internet‚ and web-based statistical procedures for human services
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SHAKESPEARE sillagescritiques.revues.org/2544 Act 3 sc 2 l83-164 1) Who / where / when & possibly why 2) Obvious elt : dramatic irony => 2 levels of reading 3) Lucio / Duke both serve as go-btwn in the play‚ go from one group to another. Both contribute to knitting all different trends in play. 4) Importance of use of words‚ which is all that’s going on in this particular extract 5) Lucio paired with other char‚ all sorts of unlikely combinations in play‚ for eg with Isab at convent. Here
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Introduction The old adage ‘what gets measured improves’ is reflected in the dramatic increase in the range and scope of data being collected today. We are barraged with statistics on sports results‚ economic indicators and politics: people are becoming familiar with scoring averages‚ inflation rates and voter satisfaction surveys. The advent of low-cost personal computers combined with the widespread availability of powerful computing software‚ such as Excel‚ means that many people have both
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Introduction Statistics is a set of tools used to organize and analyze data. Data must either be numeric in origin or transformed by researchers into numbers. For instance‚ statistics could be used to analyze percentage scores English students receive on a grammar test: the percentage scores ranging from 0 to 100 are already in numeric form. Statistics could also be used to analyze grades on an essay by assigning numeric values to the letter grades‚ e.g.‚ A=4‚ B=3‚ C=2‚ D=1‚ and F=0. Employing
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Introduction This essay describes the main aspects of relativist qualitative research in social psychology. Generalised comparisons will be considered between the methodology of relativist qualitative and experimental research‚ reflecting their different epistemology’s (what can be known about human behaviour)‚ via issues of validity‚ reliability and generalisability. In accordance with a logical positivist epistemology‚ experimental researchers argue that social behaviour is an objective‚ independent
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Define Statistics Statistics is the practice of gathering‚ sorting‚ and categorizing numerical information in an organized format that can be used to acquire results to specific problems. According to McClave‚ Benson‚ and Sincich (2011)‚ “Statistics is the science of data. It involves collecting‚ classifying‚ summarizing‚ organizing‚ analyzing‚ and interpreting numerical information” (p. 3). Different Types and Levels of Statistics There are two types of statistics. One is descriptive which defines
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