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1) Read about the following experiment and fill in the blanks that follow.
Imagine a researcher wants to know the proportion of UCLA students who favor stricter immigration
regulations and whether immigration regulation preferences depend on an immigrant?s ethnicity. Imagine
that they also want embed an experiment in their survey where students read a vignette about either a
Latino, European, or unspecified immigrant prior to being asked about their immigration regulation
preferences.
a) Come up with at least one hypothesis that could be tested from this design?
b) What is the dependent variable?
c) What is the independent variable?
d) What are the experimental conditions?
e) What is the control group?
2) What are the main strategies of inquiry used in qualitative research? Provide a brief description
of each.
Below is a sample of 16 people from a recent survey and data about their age in years, highest level
of educational attainment and party identification (use for questions 8-10):
#
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Ag
e
41
58
62
68
33
52
50
28
31
24
22
48
71
18
78
36
Educational
Attainment
College
Graduate
College
no High School
College
High School
College
no High School
Graduate
High School
College
College
College
High School
no High School
High School
Party
Identification
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Republican
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Democrat
Republican
3) What is the measurement level of the Educational Attainment variable? What measure(s) of
central tendency can be calculated for this type of variable? Please calculate them.
Measurement level = ______________________________________
Measures of central tendency? ________________________________
For your calculations, use the space provided below.
4) Party identification is a nominal variable with two categories. Create a dummy variable
?Democrat? by assigning a {1} if a person identifies as a Democrat and a {0} if a person
identifies as a Republican. Use the table to below to create a frequency table. Next, calculate the
mean and standard deviation of this variable.
Party ID
f
Democrat (1)
Republican (0)
Total
%
5) Create a frequency table for Educational Attainment. Also calculate percentages and cumulative
frequencies and percentages. Use the table below.
Education
f
%
cf
c%
Total
6) Create a bar graph for Educational Attainment. (Note: If you make the graph using word, or any
of the Microsoft Office programs, go to ?insert? and then ?chart.? For a bar graph you use the
clustered column option. An excel spreadsheet will pop up that you can enter the data into. Play
around with it until it looks right.)
7)
Below is data on the population density (i.e. inhabitants per square mile) for ten selected
(assume randomly sampled) U.S. states. Calculate the mean and standard deviation (s) for
this sample. Use the table below to help keep track of your calculations.
state
Alaska
Connecticut
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
New York
Oklahoma
8)
populatio
n density
1
738
181
34
109
835
174
63
411
54
x-xbar
(x-xbar)^2
In your words, describe what a standard deviation is.
9) Which measure of central tendency would you likely use if you had a highly skewed distribution?
a) Mode
b) Median
c) Mean
10) The greater the variability around the mean of a distribution, the larger the
a) Range
b) standard deviation
c) variance
d) All of the above.
11) The relative likelihood of occurrence of any given event is known as that event?s
a) standard deviation.
b) area under the normal curve.
c) probability.
d) All of the above.
12) A probability distribution is based on
a) actual observations.
b) probability theory.
c) the Central Limit Theorem.
d) the subtraction rule.
13) A Veterinarian tells you that the measured heart rate in healthy dogs is normally distributed and most
dogs (about 95%) have a heart rate between 60 and 160 beats per minute. What are the mean and standard
deviation of measured heart rate in dogs?
14) The inevitable difference between the mean of a sample and the mean of a population based on
chance alone is a
a) random sample.
b) condence interval.
c) sampling error.
d) probability.
15) What percent of a standard normal distribution N(? = 0, ? = 1) is found in each
region? Be
sure to draw a graph, shading the area you?re looking for.
a) Z > ?1.2
b) |Z| > 1.96
16) The average income of recent UCLA graduates is $45,600. You are interested whether alumni
who majored in political science earn more or less than the overall average, and contact 30
recent, randomly chosen political science graduates and ask them about their earnings. The
mean income in your sample is $ 37,350, the sample standard deviation is $22,500. Calculate
a 95% confidence interval around your mean. Does the confidence interval include the overall
school average? What does this tell us? (Note: This is a fairly small sample size, so use the
t-distribution. Oh, and the data for political science graduates is made up.)
17) The Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) is standardized to have a population mean ? = 500. Suppose a
researcher gives the SAT to a random sample of 60 students at a private high school, yielding a sample
mean of 541, and sample standard deviation of 105. Based on this sample, can this researcher conclude
that this private school?s students have higher SAT scores than the average student?
a) What type of hypothesis test would you use to test whether private school students have higher
SAT scores than the regular population of SAT takers?
b) Using the SAT information, test the null hypothesis that the private school students do not have
higher SAT scores using a two-tailed t-test at significance level of ? = .05. Make sure you follow
hypothesis testing steps you learned in class.
18) What is Type I error? What is Type II error?
19) Suppose that an emergency room doctor is interested in the relationship between gender, age, and
sensitivity to pain among adult patients. She collects from a sample of 57 hospital files the information
on patients? self-reported pain scores, ranging from 0 for no discomfort to 10 for the worst pain
imaginable, along with the patients? ages in years and gender (1 for male and 0 for female). The results of
her regression analysis predicting pain based on age and gender are shown in the following table:
Variable
Constant (a)
Age
Gender
N
Coefficient
1.321
0.065
0.857
57
SE
0.239
0.041
0.665
t
5.527
1.585
1.289
a) Write out the regression equation for this analysis.
b) Interpret the constant (Y-intercept).
c) Interpret the regression coefficients for age and gender.
d) Indicate which, if either, of the two independent variables is a significant predictor of pain
score. How do you know?
Bonus!
20) Calculate the mean and standard deviation (s) for Age given in the first table.
Bonus bonus!
21) What are nuisance variables in experiments? What are the effects of nuisance variables in
experiments?
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