The judges have chosen the following winners to the Critical Essay Competition which closed in July, 2011 with decisions in Oct 2011.
Two prizes were awarded in the student category. No prizes were awarded in the open category.
The essays will appear in an upcoming issue of Radical Statistics.
- 1st Prize: Nick Wattie – Relative age effects in education and sport: An argument for human, not statistical solutions.
- 2nd Prize: Chi-lin Tsai – Would both the trade unions and the Labour Party benefit from an amicable divorce?
The award for first prize is £60 and the second prize of £40, both in vouchers.Each prize winner has been given a one-year subscription to Radical Statistics and free entry to the 2012 conference.
Owing to the high standard of the entries this year, a few of the shortlisted entries were given a one-year subscription to Radical Statistics.
Congratulations to the prize winners entries on behalf of the Radical Statistics Troika!
Also, many thanks on behalf of to the contest organisers Alan Marshall and Lee Williamson to our judges Claire Boag, Jay Ginn and Paul Norman for making the 2011 Radstats Critical Essay Competition a success.