1.The GSS measures political ideology with scores such as 1=extremely liberal and 4=moderate and 7=extremely conservative. In a recent GSS, when responses were classified by political party affiliation, results were obtained as:

Democrat, 954 people, mean=3.53, standard deviation 1.32

Independent, 279 people, mean=4.03, sd =1.23

Republican, 657 people, mean=5, sd=1.17

Identify the response variable and the factor.

State the null hypothesis and the alternate hypothesis for conducting a 1-way ANOVA.