The Views Of Racism In Christianity

The Views Of Racism In Christianity

Becca: Welcome to the news today, with Becca Sinden and Bethany Pendleton.
Bethany: Todays top news is that sociologists believe the point system used in schools to determine how high up in the ranking they go, otherwise known as official statistics, is wrong.
Becca: Yes, sociologists believe this statement because the point system cannot show any feelings about the school. It can also mean that top schools are under pressure with work which isn’t healthy.
Bethany: We have investigated what the advantages and disadvantages are to official statistics. The Advantages are:
  * They are of a large-scale nature, offering a basis for generalizing findings, claiming representativeness and for investigating relationships between social variables that cannot be identified at a local level.
  * They are useful for placing smaller-scale data in a broader context.
  * Often published in the form of a statistical series which enables a more analytical perspective.
Becca: And the disadvantages are:
  * Statistics is a mere tool and not facts to make strong points for decision making.
  * Just by using the statistics given it's impossible to make a decision
  * Statistics just gives a picture of a sample of total population, which may have different outcome in a single incident.
Bethany: We will now take it over to Katie and Deanna who are going to explain a way of working out which schools are better from official statistics.
Deanna: Yes, we have 6 volunteers here who will be split in half acting as two schools. They will now take two pieces by random indicating how well the child has done in their exams.
Katie: With these grades, we will now put them on the board and add them up which will give us a final number. Then normally the added total would be divided by the amount of people in the school but in this case it will be divided by three.
Bethany: Like we originally said, sociologists say that this isn't a good way of measuring how well a school is...