What’s Fuzzy on September 22, 2011?
Question
What would be an example
of our homework? Would an
example be gender and
political party or something
else?
Response
An example is the relationship between gender and efficacy or that
politics and government is too difficult to understand.
Once you pick an
independent and dependent
variable it is at that point
you develop your
hypothesis?
Typically when we research something we want to know more about the
dependent variable e.g. support for gun control, opposition to abortion,
car fatalities or crime rates.
Is there some kind of
training software for using
PASW and can you go slower
when teaching how to use
the statistical software.
I do not know how to use
this data graph and I am not
clear on independent and
dependent variables
I would like to review the:
Define simple bar>
Summaries for group cases.
If you believe in the ‘gender gap’ then you could guess that gender is an
indication of a person’s political party affiliation. That would be a
hypothesis too.
There are popular notions as to why these situations exit. YOUR guess is
the independent variable you can pull from the data set and your
hypothesis is the connection between the independent and dependent
variable. For example, you might guess that women are less
knowledgeable about government and politics than are men. Your
hypothesis would be gender is correlated with feelings of political
efficacy as defined by views on whether government and politics are too
difficult to understand.
There are a number of recommended tutorials in Powermutt. Please
see:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~jlkorey/POWERMUTT/links.html#SPSS for
options.
Yes, I will try to go slower. I am from the east coast and I tend to talk
fast but if I am going to fast tell me to sloooow it down.
Let me recommend Chapter 1 of Powermutt the discussion of “social
science”. See if this definition of independent and dependent variables
makes sense to you.
To make a graph select GRAPH > LEGACY DIALOGS> BAR> SIMPLE (click
define). Select “other statistic (e.g. mean)” button and place the
DEPENDENT VARIABLE in the box “Variable” and the INDEPENDENT
VARIABLE in the box called “Category Axis”. The picture will either show
like boxes or unlike boxes. If there are unlike then there MAY be a
significant relationship.