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title: What Level?
date: 2004-08-20T09:13:37Z
modified: 2004-08-20T09:13:37Z
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So the pass rate has again shot up in A-level results. What are we to make of this then, have exams got easy, are the press more boring. And anyway how many Sun hacks could even answer a maths question these days. Turds.

Go on m\*therf\*cker:

> 1\) The following raw data was obtained from the ages of 31 people asked in a cinema one Saturday afternoon
> 
> 21 17 24 23 43 42 14 51 22 18 17
> 15 16 23 33 21 12 13 34 22 15
> 12 17 22 28 29 32 38 12 11 8
> 
> a) By drawing a stem-and-leaf diagram find the median age of cinema goers, and the inter-quartile range.
> 
> b) Using the answers obtained in part a) draw a boxplot of the ages of cinema goers that afternoon and comment on the shape of the distribution, i.e. do you think there is any skew to the distribution?
> 
> c) Are there any ‘outliers’ in this distribution. Use the rule that an ‘outlier’ is a value more than 1.5 times of the inter-quartile range from either quartile.

Psych. Bitch Monkeys, leave the poor kids alone, they have just worked their arses off for the best part of a year to earn this result.

So what if they are getting better results, maybe it means less of them will end up working for the hate-mongering, sycophantic, fear fear fear, kill all the bad people press machine.