Statistics GCSE coursework help?

Sure it should be enough to get an A* as that relies more on the actual calculations you do rather than the subject choice. I did mine on if health effects intelligence. You might want to have a look around on other websites for the athlete information rather than just using the source your teacher gave you

Did your teacher let your class choose whatever hypothesis they wanted instead of on one subject like health? And what sort of calculations did you do?

Thanks for commenting! xx

Umm well our teacher gave us pretty much free reign for what topic we chose but she gave us quite afew pointers! We gathered our data by doing random samples of people's (anonymous) CAT scores and questionnaires about health.

I just went upstairs to see if i could find my old stats folder but don't know where its gone I can remember drawing lots of correlation graphs and calculating standard deviation etc... I think you also get marks for interpreting the data in words so make sure you come to a good conclusion in the end!

I really liked stats GCSE... the exam is an absolute killer 2.5 hours?!! but the grade boundaries are nice and low normally so its not too impossible to get an A* as long as you put in the revision

GOOD LUCK!!xx

Thank you so much. And yup, the grades boundaries are definately nice... I got an A without any revision, and I'm crap at maths

Do you think if I collect say like 10 people's data for men in 2000 and then 10 people's data for women in 2000, and then the same for each year until 2009, that would be enough data? My teacher says we need around 30-50... but I'm not sure if she means as a whole or for each section i.e men

Hi,

My teacher said 60 minimum!! i only managed to gather 38... but as kpritchx mentioned, its about how you calculate your hypothesis for example i chose: Jamacian athletes have faster reaction times than american athletes in the Berlin 2009 would championships 100m race. then you just find out the mean and draw graphs, calculate standard deviation if possible, draw outliers and cat and whisker/box plots etc.

Hi,

My teacher said 60 minimum!! i only managed to gather 38... but as kpritchx mentioned, its about how you calculate your hypothesis for example i chose: Jamacian athletes have faster reaction times than american athletes in the Berlin 2009 would championships 100m race. then you just find out the mean and draw graphs, calculate standard deviation if possible, draw outliers and cat and whisker/box plots etc.

We're supposed to be starting our controlled assessment next week where we write the conclusion. The rest is done at home, but I need some help.

Basically, we're supposed to do a hypothesis on something in the olympics e.g. "People who weigh more can throw further in shot put" or "Taller people can run faster". Our teacher has given us a website with the data on: http://iaaf.org/oly08/results/eventCode=3659/bydiscipline/index.html but the problem is, not all the athletic's biography's have their height and weight on them. What do I do?

My hypothesis will probably be one of the above, and I will compare mens and womens, as well as the last few years or so. Do you think that's enough to get an A*?

Thank you in advance.

How do you define who's taller and who's shorter? Is there a special height they have to be over to be taller?