11.6 In any social science journal, find an article that includes a bivariate table. Inspect the table and the related text carefully and answer the following questions:

a. Identify the variables in the table. What values

(categories) does each possess? What is the level of measurement for each variable?

b. Is the table in percentage form? In what direction are the percentages calculated? Are comparisons made between columns or rows?

c. Is one of the variables identified by the author as independent?

d. How is the relationship characterized by the author in terms of the strength of the association? In terms of the direction (if any) of the association?

e. Find the measure of association (if any)

calculated for the table. What is the numerical value of the measure? What is the sign

(if any) of the measure?