We then ran a chi-square test of the variables (table 1.3): How satisfied are you with your body and with what race do you self-identify. The chi-square test yielded an asymptote significance of 0.045 which means we can reject the null hypothesis that there is no correlation between race and how women think about their bodies. The data of the women can be reported for the larger population because the relationship between race and how often women think about their weight has a statistical significance. Another test we ran with these variables is a gamma test (table 1.4). The approximate significance between these two variables is positive yet weak 0.018, which helps to determine that there is a weak yet positive correlation between the two variables.
             The next aspect of body image we tested was body satisfaction. We ran a crosstabulation between the variables of how satisfied a woman was with their body and the race they identified with. Our prediction was that African American women would be more satisfied with their bodies because of a more positive view on body image. Of African American women (table 2.2), 25.7 percent felt they were somewhat satisfied with their bodies, 40.0 percent felt they were satisfied with their bodies, and 5.7 percent felt very satisfied with their bodies. Of the Caucasian women, 52.0 percent felt they were somewhat satisfied with their bodies, 32 percent felt satisfied with their bodies, and 0.0 percent were very satisfied with their bodies. This data tells us that in our sample, Caucasian women have a lower satisfaction rate of their bodies than African American women do, but when we ran the chi-square test (table 2.3) the
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