This module will guide students into becoming more sophisticated consumers of numerical, textual and visual information. Students will inspect case studies in the form of multiple media such as text, imagery and film and analyse how our perceptions of data can be misled, including but not limited to the narrative of statements and presentation of graphs.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Spring Term 2022-23 |
This module will guide students into becoming more sophisticated consumers of numerical, textual and visual information. Students will inspect case studies in the form of multiple media such as text, imagery and film and analyse how our perceptions of data can be misled, including but not limited to the narrative of statements and presentation of graphs.
The module will be formed around a variety of case studies taken from news reports, a range of media, relevant scientific papers, adverts and interviews. Each case study will be investigated in small group workshops, looking at what the intended “take away” message is, how the actual discussion matches to that message, and how our perceptions around the facts can be manipulated through conflation of terms, subtle rewordings of statements, the construction of narrative, imagery presented, misleading graphs and other such techniques.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
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Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Feedback on formative essays will be given on the usual form, made available as soon as possible after submission.
Feedback on ideas will be generally immediately available during workshops, although over email is also a possibility.
Feedback on the summative assessment will also be on the usual form, available as soon as possible after submission.
Blastland M. and Dilnot, A. (2008). The Tiger That Isn’t. London: Profile Books.
Huff, D. (1954). How to Lie with Statistics. London: Penguin Books.
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Research -
Management and Business Research -
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/management-and-business-research/book243175#contents