Essentials of Political Analysis Chapter 7 Answers

Homework Assignment 7

Due: Friday Nov. 21th before class starts

1. Do exercise 3 in chapter 7 of the SPSS Companion Workbook.

a. A negative relationship between polview3 and spend3; A positive relationship between polview3 and social_cons3; A negative relationship between polview3 and racial_liberal3.

b.

| Code on independent variable* | |

| 0 | 1 | 2 | Chi-Square | P-value | Somers’ d |

Percent “conservative”

(spend3 cross-tab) | 43.3 | 35.4 | 28.5 | 35.934 | Zero | -0.116 |

Percent “conservative”(social_cons3 cross-tab) | 20.6 | 33.9 | 56.1 | 256.787 | Zero | 0.316 |

Percent “conservative”(racial_liberal3 cross-tab) | 41.2 | 27.3 | 23.0 | 84.296 | Zero | -0.178 |

c. As spend3 values increase, the amount of respondents labeling themselves as conservatives decreases. As social_cons3 values increase, the amount of respondents labeling themselves as conservatives increases. Its null hypothesis is correct; you obtain the Polview3-spend3 relationship less frequently than 5 times out of 100 by chance.

d. …the independent variable we cannot improve our prediction power, but if we did we can improve it by 31.6%.

e. Researcher 1

2. Do exercise 4 in chapter 7 of the SPSS Companion Workbook.

a.

| Religious tolerance(relig_tol3) | |

| Low | Mid | High | Chi-Square | P-Value | Somers’ d |

Low-education respondents:Percent “high” tolerance toward Muslim clergy | 12.0 | 19.5 | 17.4 | 6.814 | 0.339 | 0.091 |

High-education respondents:Percent “high” tolerance toward Muslim clergy | 19.5 | 32.6 | 42.0 | 23.782 | 0.001 | 0.184 |

b. No because the mid-tolerance have a higher percentage than the high tolerance category.

c. Yes because the high tolerance is higher.

d. Yes because when comparing the percentages, the people with higher education have a higher tolerance than those with a lower education.

3. Do exercise 5 in chapter 7 of the SPSS Companion Workbook.

a. Higher; higher; higher; lower

…higher levels of...