I am going to find out the year 10 male average student at Weavers School. I will collect the data on hair colour, height and weight and see the differences between 2009 data and 1996 with the help of some graphs and some complex calculations

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I am going to find out the year 10 male average student at Weavers School, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in the year of 2009. I will then compare and contrast my results to the year 10 male student of the year 1996 at Weavers School. I will collect the data on hair colour, height and weight and see the differences between 2009 data and 1996 with the help of some graphs and some complex calculations

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Sampling: Primary data 2009

I am going to collect a sample of 30 year 10 males because there are 182 students in year 10 and 94 of them are males. So 30 is roughly1/3 or 32% of the total males in year 10. 30 is small enough to be manageable and yet be representative. I am going to use random sampling method as it is not biased unlike convenient sampling. Every person has an equal chance of being selected and fairly quick unlike random stratified sampling. I will be using a calculator and the random button on the ...

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