1. (Dataset: NEE. Variables: poll-mow2, political_trust, ft_Tea, nesw.) Given the Tea Party movement's deep skepticism of government activism, it seems plausible to hypothesize that individuals who distrust the government would have warmer feelings toward the Tea Party than would those who trust the government to do what's right. Of course, persons would need to he reasonably well informed about politics to make the connection between their assessment of government and their evaluation of the Tea Party. When we control for political knowledge [control variable}, we may nd that the relationship between Tea Party ratings (dependent variable] and trust of goverrunJent (independent variable} gets stronger as knowledge increases. In other words, interaction could be occurring in this set of relationships. Consider two propositions and an ancillary hypothesis. Proposition 1: Fit all levels of political knowledge [NEE variable, polknowl}, individuals who distrust the government [political_trust] will give the Tea Party higher ratings [ft_Tea) than will people who trust the government. Proposition 2: The relationship between political trust and Tea Party ratings will be weaker for lowerlorowledge respondents than for those wir higher knowledge. Ancillary hypothesis: In a comparison of individuals, those with higher levels of political lorowledge are more likely to trust the government than are those with lower levels of political lorowledge. The dependent variable is the Tea Party feeling thermometer (ft_Tea]I, which runs from G (cold or negative feelings) to 100 (warm or positive feelings). The independent variable is political_trust, which captures how often respondents trust in government to do what's right, with ve ordinal valuesnever, some, about half, most, or always. A. Use the analyze p- Cnmpare Means p- Means procedure (with layers) to do a controlled mean comparison analysis of ft_Tea for each combination of political_trust and pollmowl. Record the means next to the question marks in the following table. Use weights so your results are nationally representative. Political Knowledge Tota . l Egivfmn can you trust federal government to do what 5 Always . :- 7