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In this third edition of making sense of researchwe would like to acknowledge the major contribution made by maggie judd to the previous editions, and wish her well in her new work. Instruction manual on the interpretation of epidemiological data. The student of culture here reports, to the best of her ability, her interpretation of these subjective and intersubjective meanings or understandings and does not assume that any reality exists independent of such understandings. The focus is on how to engage students in science and to build their understandings of the nature of science whilst developing their science capabilities. The finding at the top of your chart or table should not be a recitation of the numbers in the chart or table.
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