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Help with Dependent/Independent Variables 2017-04-25 10:52:14 Post No. 8858103
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Hey guys, does anyone mind helping me locate the independent/dependent variables in the various hypothesis's listed below?
Hypothesis 1: As a country's per capita GDP increases, its Polity score { which ranges from
-10 (autocracy) to 10 (full democracy) { increases.
Hypothesis 2: States that have strict background check laws on gun sales see fewer deaths
per capita from gun violence than states that do not.
Hypothesis 3: Those with a college degree di er from those without a college degree in their
tendency to support a political candidate by putting a bumper sticker on their car or a sign
in their yard.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
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>>8858103
that last hypothesis says *differ and not di er, my mistake!
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>>8858103
Additionally, for each variable identified, could you please state whether or not it is continuous, ordinal, or categorical?
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>mfw 16 year olds browse /sci/
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>>8858103
These are all correlative hypotheses and therefore do not imply which variable is dependent or independent. A casual interpretation would be that the first variable mentioned is the independent cause while the second is the dependent result. But this is just a badly worded problem.
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>>8858137
See, that's what I originally assumed (that the first variable mentioned is the independent variable, and the second is the dependent). I ended up trying this approach on the last homework assignment and somehow managed to get a few problems incorrect.
Please note that I am fairly familiar with this type of remedial stuff, it's just that for some reason rare awkward problems like the ones mentioned in this thread just really trip me up.
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>>8858137
This pretty much sums it up.
1st is ordinal, 2nd is continous, 3rd is categorical
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>>8858246
Huh? There should be two variables for each hypothesis.
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>>8858103
Only going to give this thread one bump.
*crosses fingers in the hopes that a statistical guru will shed some light on my questions*
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>>8858957
Thanks
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>>8858103
GDP impacts polity
Gun control impacts gun violence deaths
College degrees impact political preference
The independent variable always shows results in regards to the dependent variable. If you read the sentences above with the 2 switched, they dont make.much realistic sense.
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>>8858115
Its nominal ordinal and interval/ratio, senpai
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>>8859143
Thanks a lot, bud.
I'm not too sure what you mean by that last post though. According to the directions for the homework, it has to be either continous, ordinal, or categorical.
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>>8859148
If I had to use your retarded teacher's terms, I would assume that ordinal means ordinal, categorical means nominal and continuous means interval/ratio
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>>8859154
Ah, I see. But shouldn't there be 2 variables per hypothesis; 6 in total?
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>>8859154
continuous means it's a measured value you brainlet intervals are discrete variables. also stop doing OPs highschool level math
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