Find the results that we would expect to see in the contingency table in Example 9.1 if there is no association between gender and attitude to the amount of sport on television.

We can deduce the figures we would expect to see. We know from the totals that the respondents are split equally between the 50 who think there is too much sport and the 50 who think there is not enough. If there is no association between the attitudes that people have towards the amount of sport on television and gender we would anticipate that both men and women would be evenly split on the issue. In other words if gender makes no difference to whether people think there is too much sport on television we would expect the same proportion of men as women to say so, and the same proportion of men as women to say there is not enough.