Imagine that you have just heard a UCLA student generalize that USC students are “apolitical, upper class kids who are interested in entertainment more than academics.”

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• Imagine that you have just heard a UCLA student generalize that USC students are “apolitical, upper class kids who are interested in entertainment more than academics.” 

• Pick 3 variables from the dataset provided, that relate to the claim made, and use output about them from SPSS to answer the questions. 

o Select 1 or more of these claims (apolitical, upper class, or having other interests). 

o Use 3 variables from the data provided to examine the characterization(s) you select. 

o You must use one nominal, one ordinal variable, and one interval variable; you may recode or compute, if necessary – but you probably will not. (If you do, have a very good reason!) 


• The whole report is structured around responding to that statement. You could choose variables that relate to being apolitical, or to being upper class, or to being more interested in entertainment than in academics, or to any combination of those three. At each junction in the report, after describing the variable’s central tendency and dispersion and shape etc, you’ll go back to that statement and assess whether, given what you’ve seen and said, the statement is supported or contradicted by the data in hand.


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