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Amanda Powe
Sowk 300
Tuskegee University
March 27, 2010
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Hypothesis
When studies were done on students in grade school, questions were asked to
develop knowledge on youth and at risk behavior. The questions varied from
whether or not the student has smoked before, to their involvement in
physical fights. There will be a direct correlation between the gender of
students tat participate in at risk behavior at young ages. There will also be
relationship between the students race, gender, and the amount of times that
that have participated in at risk behavior. There will be more males that
participate in at risk behavior. There will also be more minorities that
participate in at risk behavior at young ages.
The hypotheses above will be analyzed with the set of data provided. The
school and the background information will not be analyzed, but in future
research may show valuable to a new study. Though there may contrasting
effects that the data may prove, there needs to be a discussion of these
differences and what may have caused them. When coming up with a
hypotheses there was no need to look at the data, the data will only be used to
compare results up to my decided on hypotheses. My hypotheses is based on
prior knowledge of students and some personal experience.
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Rationale
The independent variable Gender will effect the mount of times in which a
student was in a physical fight. I think that the gender of student that is
young determines the types of behavior that they will partake in. Male
students are taught to be “macho” and stand up for themselves in some
instances. Female students are taught to act in a civilized way, that does not
includes, not showing too much emotional anger. These actions will effect the
amount of times the students were involved in a physical fight.
When adding the control variable to the equation of the dependent and
independent variable. Students that are in certain areas are minorities. It is
assumed that minorities have harsh physical behavior. It is also assumed that
the control variable race has a lot to do with actions and reactions. Minorities
are thought of as being comprised in areas that are low income and oriented
with gangs. Thought this is not always the case I wanted to work to prove
that this is merely an assumption derived by stereotypes created by our
communities and society itself. When assumptions are made studies such as
this one can form, confirm, or prove them wrong.
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Results
Bivariate Table 1
Respondent's Sex by The amount times
R was in a physical Fight
# of times Male Female
0-3 times 49.4 43.2
4-9 times 1.6 3.2
10 or more times .6 2.0
Multivariate Table 1
The amount times
R was in a physical Fight by Sex for Non Hispanic (Race)
Non Hispanic
# of times Male Female
0-3 times 37.5 55.0
4-9 times 2.4 2.7
10 or more times 0 2.4
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Discussion
Previously stated, gender would have an affect on the amount of times that R
was in a physical fight. The results show that in the bivariate case dealing
with the two variables number of times in physical fight counted as the at
risk behavior. The gender of the respondent counted the independent
variable. There were a number of females surprisingly that participated in at
risk behavior 0-3times. More male students overall throughout the whole
study participated in at risk behavior. The females were close to the
percentage of males but not as high.
Students that are participants of at risk behavior are more likely to be
minorities. The study shows that the students that were Hispanic had a large
number of females who were active in at risk behavior. Students that were
Hispanic showed low numbers in relation to the study as a whole. Hispanic
students showed like activity in at risk behavior. This result could be further
digested by looking in the the amount of participants in the study that
answered other. The respondents in the multivariate analysis were all
Hispanic and this group showed that the hypotheses was untrue when stated
at the start of this report. The reasoning behind the low percentage of
minorities who participated in the study could later be investigated. The
investigation can cover the area and background information of the school.
The student population may have had a small number of minorities enrolled.
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Discussion Continued
Overall this study could have a large amount of error because of the
population's of the school. Where their may have been a large percentage of
males surveyed, there may not have been a large amount of minorities
involved in the study. Thought the results prove that there were a large
number of males that participated in at risk behavior, physical fights may not
have been the best variable to use for detecting at risk behavior. The study
used other variables, such as amount of times R smoked etc. Though physical
fights are in part horrible situations for young students, there is no guarantee
that the student surveyed was the student that was the aggressor. The
variable chose could have background information that needs to be identified
in order to make any assumptions about the amount of at risk behavior that
certain students participate in.
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APPENDIX
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Syntax Files
Bivariate and Multivariate 3/23/10
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Output Files
Bivariate Crosstabs 3/23/10
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Multivariate Crosstabs 3/23/10