End-of-Chapter Activities Chapter 14: Constructing and Interpreting Bivariate Tables
Activity 14.2 Percentage Tables and Hypotheses
Consider Table 14.11.
Name the variables in the table.
What is the independent variable?
What is the dependent variable?
How many Liberals are Democrats?
State a hypothesis that is tested by the table.
Write a paragraph referring to actual percentages in the table and calculating percentage differences to determine the strength of the relationship indicating if the hypothesis is supported by the data.
