By tim, on July 8th, 2011 at 8:06 am There’s an interesting report on the BBC website this morning which discusses the data published by the Sutton Trust on where Universities get their intake. Unsurprisingly, the report makes much of the fact that Oxbridge applications are skewed towards particular schools and that in general, privately educated pupils fare better when it comes to gaining admission. I think we knew most of this already.
However, there’s some interesting data tucked away in table 12 of appendix 2 of the trust’s report which doesn’t seem to have been widely reported. This table shows the proportion of state educated pupils going into . . . → Read More: Metropolitan areas dominate university admissions
By tim, on April 14th, 2011 at 7:51 pm A few days ago, when the government (and Nick Clegg in particular) was launching its strategy for social mobility, there was a chart used that made me feel a little uneasy. I couldn’t initially put my finger on why that was the case, but it looked as if it supported the argument rather too well. The chart I’m talking about is reproduced below:
A problem of social mobility or regression towards the mean?
It was used to claim that initially better performing children from poorer families fall back compared with less well performing children from richer families as . . . → Read More: Lies, damned lies and social mobility statistics
By tim, on April 4th, 2011 at 8:52 pm I promise that this is the final one of the series of posts (for now … as there’s always another quarter end …) which relate to my blog stats.
This time it’s a graph of the number of page views tenpencepiece.net has received every week since the start of 2009 (my first post was in November 2008 and the site moved here from wordpress.com during in October 2009.) The figures don’t include hits from the automated robots that Google and others send out across the internet to look for content to enable their search engines to work – these are . . . → Read More: It’s good to know that you’re out there – somewhere!
By tim, on April 2nd, 2011 at 6:43 pm In case you weren’t bored enough already by the previous statistical post, here’s another. This time, it’s where people came from in the first quarter of 2011 and where they left to go to if they clicked on a link on this blog.
Q1 2011 – referring sites
In some ways it’s no great surprise that facebook tops the list this time. I’m now finally on there myself and it also seems to have replaced a lot of the chatter that used to happen in the FirstClass forums in previous years. These are still there in second . . . → Read More: Q1 2011 – Comings and goings
By tim, on April 1st, 2011 at 7:41 pm I had written an ‘April Fool’ post a few days ago that was scheduled to appear here just after midnight.
However, I read it again and decided it just wasn’t that funny. So it’s gone. As such, you’ll have to make do with a repeat (kind of) instead.
*Drum roll*
The graphic below shows the 30 most popular posts on this blog as voted for read by you, dear reader, in the first quarter of this year.
Most popular posts – Q1 2011
Here’s the repeat bit – these were the most popular posts in the same quarter last . . . → Read More: Most popular posts – Q1 2011
By tim, on January 3rd, 2011 at 9:00 am I’ve already posted three articles about my blog statistics for 2010. You may well be relieved to hear that this is the final one! This is simply a graph comparing the number of page views each week in 2010 compared with 2009.
2010 saw 53,501 page views (23,989 in 2009).
www.tenpencepiece.net – weekly page views in 2009-2010
Unsurprisingly, given the OU examination timetable for ED209 and DD303, October was the busiest month with 13,479 views.
Thanks for visiting everyone – and I’m looking forward to (virtually) seeing you all again in 2011.
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By tim, on December 28th, 2010 at 2:16 pm Which posts you read in 2010
Key to the top 40 posts:
Blue – DD303 – cognitive psychology related (18/40)
Orange – ED209 – child development related (12/40)
Yellow – Open University related (6/40)
Purple – General (2/40)
Dark Green – Chartered IT Professional related (1/40)
Light Green – DD307 – critical social psychology related (1/40)
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