Correlations HOURS PER AGE OF RESPONDENT DAY WATCHING TV AGE OF RESPONDENT Pearson Correlation 1 .151** Sig. (2-tailed) .000 N 2013 1316 HOURS PER DAY Pearson Correlation .151** 1 WATCHING TV Sig. (2-tailed) .000 N 1316 1324 **. Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). Chapter 5 Assessing Association through Bivariate Analysis 131 7. Is there a relationship between a person's age (AGE) and the number of hours spent per day watching TV (TVHOURS)? Use the GSS08 data to test this relationship. Make a prediction: What is the mean number of hours people spend watching television? Would you expect the correlation between age and television viewing to be... Negative Nonexistent Now perform the analysis with SPSS and find: Positive Correlation Significance level Is the relationship statistically significant? Yes No Do people tend to watch more or less TV as they age? More Less How would you explain these findings? HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV 25 25 20 20 15 10 5 Scatter Plot of HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV by AGE OF RESPONDENT 0 0 20 20 0000 00 000 0 000 000 0000 00 0000 00 000 000 0000000 0000000 0000 00000-00-0800 000 000 0000 000 00 ry=1.86+0.02*x 40 DO 00000 O 0000 60 80 100 AGE OF RESPONDENT R2 Linear-0.023