C6. Occupational prestige is a statistic developed by sociologists to measure the status of one’s occupation. Occupational prestige is also a component of what sociologists call socioeconomic status, a composite measure of one’s status in society. On average, people with more education tend to have higher occupational prestige than people with less education. We investigate this using the GSS 2018 variable PRESTG80 and the Explore procedure to generate the SPSS output.

Description Description Descriptive Statistics for Occupational Prestige Score by Highest Degree Earned 1. Note that SPSS supplies the IQR, the median, and the minimum and maximum values of each group. Looking at the values of the mean and median, do you think the distribution of prestige is skewed for respondents with a high school diploma? For respondents with a bachelor’s degree? Why or why not?
2. Explain why you think there is more variability of prestige for either group or why the variability of prestige is similar for the two groups.

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HIGH SCHOOL Mean stige score (2010) Confidencent 40,08 19.08 508 Upper Bound 41.08 Trimmed Mean 39.58 38.00 Sed Deviation 11.029 15 24 Range SW 17 353 ORG 107 213 R's occupational prestige score (2010) R's highest degree BACHELOR Descriptives Statistic Std. Error Mean 51.59 .945 95% Confidence interval for Mean Lower Bound 49.72 Upper Bound 53.45 5% Trimmed Mean 51.81 Median 52.50 Variance Std. Deviation Minimum Maximum Range Interquartile Range Skewness Kurtosis 173.238 13.162 1. 17 80 63 19 -240 175 -427 347