Experience with son and his GCSE showed that the actual information from any survey was virtually immaterial- what mattered was how the statistics were (allegedly) gathered and then "used" to further the project. In other words, the demonstration of how to handle data was paramount: the actual data were of less importance. Sad but true.
@Hexagon: the simplest way is to make it up. Set some questions. Claim to have the answers (after all, who is going to validate it? Examiners can't check every candidate) and then "analyse" it, draw some clever graphs and tell them what they want to hear. That's called playing the system. It's also why the validity of so many of these exams has been called into question.
Curmudgeons corner is as good a place as any in the circumstances! But if you think about it, the questionnaires for GCSE coursework are always going to be irrelevant because the sample of contributors will be very small and statistically invalid ie too small and limited to be in any way meaningful. You can never extrapolate from a small sample, and no student can get, or have the capacity to interpret, large quantities of data.
Hello everyone, I have continued with my project and have some design Ideas. I would be very grateful if you could answer this questionnaire so I can find out my proffered design. This is the link to the questionnaire - https://forms.gle/bVgYGaZh1bzd4czcA Tank you.
OK for me. We do already have concept 1 and with a motor. It's for making holes for posts really - the kind that need a concrete boot - but we're trying it for saplings. OH dug 3 holes with it on Tuesday but I have yet to inspect - flipping wet out there.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Please can you fill out this forum to show me how you would improve my final design. This is the link to the forum: https://forms.gle/rbyoS7jLeV4j74Hq7 Thank you.
Springs aren't really made for digging holes. If you want a hole dug like that you'd need more of an auger design but forestry planters tend to use a T-notch trench for planting saplings because it opens up the soil to allow the roots to spread out.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The main thing that saplings need is water. Someone with a watering can at regular intervals would save many of the trees planted at the wrong time of year that are then just left to die. I saw over 100 trees planted at a local nature reserve. A year later, three survived. It was a hot summer. They were less than 50 yards from a river .
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But if you think about it, the questionnaires for GCSE coursework are always going to be irrelevant because the sample of contributors will be very small and statistically invalid ie too small and limited to be in any way meaningful. You can never extrapolate from a small sample, and no student can get, or have the capacity to interpret, large quantities of data.
I have continued with my project and have some design Ideas.
I would be very grateful if you could answer this questionnaire so I can find out my proffered design.
This is the link to the questionnaire - https://forms.gle/bVgYGaZh1bzd4czcA
Tank you.
This is the link to the forum: https://forms.gle/rbyoS7jLeV4j74Hq7
Thank you.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.