applied sociology

             The results I found for attitudes towards suicide were what was expected.
             I ran the significance values for level of education (degree) and for age. However
             my disk contracted a virus and I lost my data set and was not able to run
             significance values for my other independent variables (age, income). What I
             found was that attitudes towards suicide were affected by degree and age.
             Degree was the most powerful predictor of attitudes towards suicide. I
             used the Somers'd method because both the dependent variable and the
             independent variable had nominal values. The Somers'd value was .187 and was
             significant at the 001 level. This means that there is a 18.7 or 19% reduction in
             error in predicting attitudes towards suicide by knowing the respondent's highest
             degree earned. The higher someone's education the more likely that they can see
             suicide acceptable in at least one situation. Table 1 shows the extremes of the
             degree category to display the strong correlation. We can see, of the respondents
             who had less than a High school Diploma only 54.6% of them could not see
             suicide acceptable in any of the four situations. Out of all the respondents who
             earned a high school diploma only 41% of them could not deem suicide
             acceptable in any situation and out of all the respondents who have higher than a
             high school diploma only 30% of them could not accept it in any situation.
             The Chi Square could not be interpreted because there was not 5 people in
             every cell. Technically in this circumstance we can not reject the null hypothesis,
             but there was only one cell with three and we found that there is a 19%
             significance value so we can assume that three is a relationship between our
             independent and dependent variables.
             TABLE 1. ATTITUDES TOWARDS SUICIDE AS COMPARED WITH
             Age was another strong predictor of attitudes towards suicide. Once again
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