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Exam Question

You will be evaluated based on how you develop an appropriate methodological design to respond to the question and how you analyze and interpret the data.

Use Data sets provided with the George & Mallory text to answer the following when applicable:

1. You have been asked to conduct a study of mobility patterns among welfare recipients.  Explain how you approach such a study from an inductive theoretical perspective.  (You might find it helpful to make an outline to answer this question).

2. You and a colleague get into a heated debate over the cause of student dissatisfaction on campus. Your colleague argues that there is a direct relationship between student unrest and periods of uncertainty among faculty due to changes in upper administration.  Outline how you would design a study to test your colleague's theory keeping in mind the criteria underlying causal logic.  (Consider using Criteria of cause and/or causal analysis).

3. You are a consultant to your county's social service board.  You hear that new legislation may significantly reduce social security and Medicaid Benefits. If three of the four communities and four of the five rural townships in your county have negatively skewed age profiles, what might be the implications of the new legislation on your county? (Note: a complete answer will use discussion of distributions to defend your position. Also, note a vast majority have a negatively skewed profile).

Use the divorce.sav file on blackboard that accompanied your George &Mallery text to answer the following next THREE questions.

4. Statistically describe the gender difference in marital status among married and unmarried people on 4 survey items in the data: a) Education; b) Employment; c) Income; and d) Children. (Note, you may need to recode variables such as with marital status depending on variable labels& think about hypothesis testing).

5. Do the survey findings support the assumption that there is a difference in marital status and age among those married and not married? (Note, you might want to think about measures of association and hypothesis testing).

6. Can one conclude that married persons are more likely to have a higher income then their non-married counterparts?  Display the distribution of married and unmarried people in the sample by income differences. Is there a significant difference among marital status and income? Interpret findings and offer some explanation.

Use the grades.sav file on blackboard that accompanied your George &Mallery text to answer the following next TWO questions.

7. Suppose you want to examine if there is a difference in class composition among the 3 sections of classes. What is the class composition (i.e. descriptive information: gender, gpa, year, ethnicity) for each of the 3 sections of classes in the grades.save file and are there significant differences with these indicators?  Among the classes is there one class with a higher grade then the other sections?  Why?

8. What is the relationship between passing the course (or failing it) and whether the student completed extra credit in the 3 sections?  Define each of the concepts and why the relationship does exist or doesn't?  (Note: think about what SPSS/Statistical procedures should be used to answer this question and Justify why you chose that test over at least 1 other test.

Extra Credit (worth up to 10 points): Compare and contrast the t-test and the One-way Anova Procedure. Are there any similarities & differences between the two types of tests?  What are the advantages to each (that is why would you want to use one versus another)? (Note: remember, I do not know the difference or anything about either of these tests or why you would use them so be sure to be clear with your answers.

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