An urban planning commissioner has built up a database describing a sample of the neighborhoods in her city and has developed a scale by which each area can be rated for the

“quality of life” (this includes measures of pollution, noise, open space, services available, and so on). She has also asked samples of residents of these areas about their level of satisfaction with their neighborhoods. Is there significant agreement between the commissioner’s objective ratings of quality and the respondents’ self-reports of satisfaction?

a. Is there a statistically significant relationship between these variables?

b. Compute column percents for the table to determine the pattern of the relationship? Which group is most likely to say that their satisfaction is high?