Advanced Higher Geography

Another really useful inferential statistical technique for Advanced Higher studies, chi squared analysis is used for categorical data. It tests for associations; is there a difference between the data for these categories?

The worked example for Chi Squared uses data collected by an AH pupil in 2024-2025 when studying a peatland. Hopefully you'll be able to identify somewhere in your own project where you could use Chi Squared analysis too.

Last week you should have summarised your first source. This week you'll start to work on the critical analysis.

You've already done lots of practice with this during your Geographical Reading tasks earlier in the year.

The 2025 course report for AH gave some helpful pointers on what to focus on as part of the critical evaluation:

• author credibility

• source reliability

• identifying areas of bias

• identifying areas of exaggeration 

• commenting on the facts and/or figures

• wider reading to support

• wider reading to oppose

• comparing sources 1, 2 and 3