Lesson 30 How do I handle the data?
Unit 30 Worksheet 3 Handling data
3 “How good you are at English is a good predictor of how good you are in other subjects” True or false?
Someone says: ‘You can predict how well girls will do in science just by looking at how well they did in English.’Check how true this statement is, then find how well it works for boys.
Look at the table below of levels awarded to two groups of pupils at KS3. First think of possible ways of handling this, in discussion with your partners.
| Girls | English level | Science level | Boys | English level | Science level |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||
| 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 6 | 4 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 6 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | ||
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 8 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 8 | 8 | 7 | 8 |