3/23/99 EXERCISE FOR PARTICIPATION CREDIT

GROUP NUMBER: _______________________

Write in the NAMES OF YOUR GROUP MEMBERS BELOW - CLEARLY

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PURPOSE.

In the General Social Survey, covering the years 1972 through 1996, about 14% of respondents report owning a pistol. Here is the frequency distribution:

Valid Cum

Value Label Value Frequency Percent Percent Percent

.00 17702 50.2 77.6 77.6

1.00 5111 14.5 22.4 100.0

. 12471 35.3 Missing

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Total 35284 100.0 100.0

The outcome you are focusing on is whether or not the person reports owning a pistol.

Your group is to focus on the predictor listed below that is linked to your group number. ON THE BACK OF THE PAGE write the answers to the two questions below.

1 Age

2 Gender

3 Ethnicity

4 Family Composition (children in house)

5 Education level

6 Size of city they live in

7 Fear of crime

8 How many nights a week socializing at bar

9 Region of the country

10 Think of self as liberal or conservative

11 Home broken into

12 Robbed on street

13 Picked up or charged by police

14 Government doing too much or too little to reduce crime in the city

Q1: what is the direction of the hypothesis? What scores on the predictor are linked to what scores on the outcome?

Q2: what is the PROCESS by means of which scores on the predictor link to scores on the outcome? I need you to spend at least several sentences on this.

BEFORE YOUR GROUP LEAVES TODAY BE SURE THAT EITHER TODD OR I HAVE A CHANCE TO GO OVER WHAT YOU WROTE SO WE CAN BE SURE IT IS CLEAR.

I will be testing your hypotheses against the data and reporting back over the next few classes.