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Whether in a scholarly or practitioner setting, good research and data analysis should have the benefit of peer feedback. For this Discussion, you will post your response to the hypothesis test, along with the results. Be sure and remember that the goal is to obtain constructive feedback to improve the research and its interpretation, so please view this as an opportunity to learn from one another.



To prepare for this Discussion:



  • Review Chapters 10 and 11 of the Frankfort-Nachmias & Leon-Guerrero course text and the media program found in this week’s Learning Resources related to bivariate categorical tests.

  • Create a research question using the General Social Survey dataset that can be answered using categorical analysis.


By Day 3


Use SPSS to answer the research question. Post your response to the following:



  1. What is your research question?

  2. What is the null hypothesis for your question?

  3. What research design would align with this question?

  4. What dependent variable was used and how is it measured?

  5. What independent variable is used and how is it measured?

  6. If you found significance, what is the strength of the effect?

  7. Explain your results for a lay audience and further explain what the answer is to your research question.



Be sure to support your Main Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.


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Pooja answered on Aug 02 2021
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Analysis
1. The research question is to test if citizen of America and legal of Marijuana are associ
ated with each other.
2. Null hypothesis, ho: citizen of America and legal of Marijuana are not associated with each other.
3. This is a descriptive research design as the data is obtained from a survey.
4. The dependent variable is “Should marijuana be made legal”. It is measured by the nominal scale of measurement. This is categorised as legal and not legal.
5. The independent variable is “Are you a citizen of America”. This is also measured by the nominal scale of measurement. As it is categorical in nature and is grouped as either yes or no.
6. The alternative hypothesis is citizen of America and legal of Marijuana are associated with each other. With chi square (1) = 30.552, p<5%, I reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the results are significant.
The effect size is measured by the Phi. The phi = 0.197. This value implies that the effect size is small.
7. There is sufficient...
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