Social Statistics for a Diverse Society (8th Edition) P. 87 Create a frequency d

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Social Statistics for a Diverse Society (8th Edition) P. 87

Create a frequency distribution, including any appropriate measures of central tendency, for PREMARSX (Does the respondent approve of sex before marriage?).

Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate to summarize the distribution of PREMARSX(respondent approves of sex before marriage)? Explain why.

Suppose we are interested in whether attitudes about premarital sex vary by beliefs about the Bible. Create a frequency distribution, including any appropriate measures of central tendency, for PREMARSX, this time separating results for the categories in BIBLE. Are there any differences in their measures of central tendency? Explain.

sex RESPONDENTS SEX = 2 FEMALE Descriptive Statisticsa Std. Deviation Minimum MaximumMean age AGE OF RESPONDENT emailhr EMAIL HOURS PER WEEK 823 18 89 50.52 17.525 309 0 60 6.27 10.094 tvhours HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV 564 0 24 2.79 2.392 309 Valid N (listwise) a. sex RESPONDENTS SEX = 2 FEMALE

Explanation / Answer

central tendency which is most appropriate to summarize the distribution of PREMARSX(respondent approves of sex before marriage) is median ( As median can be calculated for open end classes also).

suppose we are interested in whether attitudes about premarital sex vary by beliefs about the bible , then appropriate measure of central tendency would be mean as results are seperated for the categories in BIBLE.

Yes there is a difference observed ,,that mean is larger than median . the distribution is positively skewed.

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