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Hi Zoe, Do you have some model answers for this activity? Thank you!
4.4 Management of Eutrophication -
Many thanks for pointing this out. I've updated the page with Lisa's help behind the scenes. You were, of course, correct.
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With the trials being = 5 is it not too small a sample to calculate the standard error? From your "Measures of Variability" it says that SE needs minimum 30 samples. I would guess that very few IA's have that amount of data (but I could be wrong)....
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Site authorHi Julia, I've updated the page with a link to the answers. You can choose to let students have access to this whenever you want
4.4 Management of Eutrophication