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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