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Test your critical skills with these exercises designed to explore how numbers work as historical evidence.

Ask yourself these important questions:

How do I locate quantitative data and assess reliability?

How do I link records?

Sampling: do I have to count everything?

How do I locate patterns? Totals and Rates

How do I locate patterns? Averages

How are data patterns related?

 

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