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May the odds be ever in your favour…

Year 10 have been learning about sampling in Market Research.  They know that research is expensive and businesses need to ensure they ask the correct people in order to obtain useable results. We watched an extract from the Hunger Games to see how names were pulled out of a bowl to select them.  We then developed the idea that as boys and girls had been put in separate bowls this was not random sampling…

 

All of this will help them towards their business coursework which they will complete this year where they design and market a hat and then evaluate whether or not it likely to be successful.