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Does a population hierarchy exist on the Ards Peninsula?
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... HYPOTHESIS 1 Does a population hierarchy exist on the Ards Peninsula? AIMS: The aim of this hypothesis is to see if the Rank Size Rule is true of the Ards Peninsula. In other words, to verify if there is a definite order to the spacing of settlements on the Ards Peninsula that could be said to be close to that stated by the Rank Size Rule. METHODOLOGY: In order to achieve the aims I have outlined above I used several different methods of collating and analysing the data. However, I must first describe how the data was collected. Much of the data was collected on the trip to the Ards Peninsula, although a good deal of the information regarding this hypothesis in particular was collected using census data. The data regarding population was gathered mostly by driving very slowly through the settlements and counting the houses as we went, then multiplying the number of














