SOC In this exercise, you will use SPSS and the 2012 General Social Survey (GSS) to compare Protestants and Catholics for significant differences in their average social class standing, using level of education (educ) and self-rated social position (rank) as measures of social class.

You will use the Independent-Samples T Test to conduct the tests.

● Click the SPSS icon on your desktop.

● Load the GSS2012 database.

● Click Analyze S Compare Means S Independent-Samples T Test.

● Find educ and rank in the list of variables and move them into the “Test Variable(s)” box.

● Find relig in the list of variables and move it into the “Grouping Variable” box.

● Click Define Groups and type 1 (for Protestants)

in the box for Group 1 and 2 (for Catholics) in the box for Group 2. Click Continue.

● Click OK and the results of the test will be printed to the SPSS output window.

● Find the group means, the t score, degrees of freedom, and the “Sig. (2-tailed)” (which is the exact probability of getting this difference if H0 is true), and report the results of the test in a few sentences.