WVS respondents were asked to rate how acceptable they believe parents beating their children to be on a scale from 1 (never justifiable) to 10

(always justifiable). Treating this variable as ratio-level, I calculated means for each country to create the country-level variable ETHBEATKIDS.

Compare the set of African countries to the set of West Asian countries with regard to the skewness and the variance for this variable and describe what differences you find.