Whilst Savage sampled respondents with surnames beginning with A–B, our approach was more methodical and went roughly as follows: (1) scan-read all documents to obtain initial impressions of the general form an
Selection of medical students in the UK is still largely based on prior academic achievement, although doubts have been expressed as to whether performance in earlier life is predictive of outcomes later in medical school or post-graduate education. This
As with the UCLMS Cohort Study, the majority of students in the 1990 cohort took A-level examinations at the age of 17 years. Scoring of A-levels was carried out in the same way as for the UCLMS cohort, with equivalent scores being derived. As already mentioned, there has been consider...
OK, so our lot have been in Australia for several generations, but we’d been here in England for much longer before this; so long, in fact, that they were just beginning to hand out surnames when we wandered in from Ireland (or something like that). The name stuck, even after a ...