A blogger wrote a blog post about gun culture in the United States that went viral.

In it, he claimed that American gun culture was “steeped in sexism.” He didn’t show any data to support his claim. Table 3.21 shows a cross-tabulation of the importance of gun ownership to gun owners’ identities and how well they think being a “supporter of women’s rights” describes them.

a. You decide to use the data in the cross-tabulation to evaluate the blogger’s claim. Specifically, you ask the question: Is there a relationship between identifying strongly as a gun owner and identifying as a supporter of women’s rights? According to the table, what is the direction of the relationship between these two variables? Would you characterize it as a strong relationship?

Why or why not?

b. Do you think that these results are consistent with the blogger’s claim that American gun culture is sexist? Why or why not?