Scenario

A child care organization commissioned a random survey to identify child-raising. A topic of interest was the difference between the beliefs of men and women regarding discipline. The follow table reports data men's and women's attitudes toward spanking.

Attitude toward spanking by respondent gender

Favor Spanking Male Female

Strongly 115 107

Somewhat 212 221

Oppose 73 109

Strongly oppose 18 42

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Chi-square=13.1, degrees of freedom=3, significance=0.004

1) State the alternative hypothesis and the null hypothesis that could be tested with the data in this table.

2) Identify the independent and dependent variables

3) Calculate percentages and include in them in a table. draft a synopsis to describe the connection shown in the table. Do the data in the table support or contradict your hypothesis? explain.

4) Based on the chi-square evidence what would you do, that is, would you reject the null hypothesis?

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1) What are the implications of the findings presented in the above exercise?

Do you consider the table an interesting observation, a question for further study, or something else?

2) A finding of statistical significance can be persuasive, what other evidence should the child care organization present so that parents and other stakeholders are able to evaluate the findings?