These are the items for the Ayers 12 and 13 plus Crime Drop Quiz.
The answers should be entered in SAKAI. They are Due December 14.
You have three tries in SAKAI.
1. These items are from page 322-323 of the Ayers workbook.
In item 1b, how many of the obituaries were coded NO by both coders?
[note that this asks for the frequency, not the percent]
2. How many were coded some by both coders?
3. How many of the cases were coded the same by both coders? [note that
this asks for the frequency, not the percent]
4. What is the value of Cramer's V for this table? Give this with three
digits after the decimal point in this form: 0.126
5. Is the coding for hobby sufficiently reliable?
a. yes
b. no
6. How many of the non-missing cases on OCCSTAT were coded the same?
[this is the frequency, not the percentage}
7. What is the cramer's V for the crosstabulation of the two codings of
OCCSTAT? Use the format 0.567
8. The next items refer to pages 337-341 in Ayers. Ronald Reagan was in
office from 1981 to 1988. Did he succeed in cutting the relative amount
of federal money per capita for education in his administration. If so,
did he cut it a little or a lot?
a. No, it continued to increase during his term
b. No, it remained stable
c. Yes, it decreased a little during his term
d. Yes, it decreased back to the level of 1970 during his term
9. On page 339, do the ANOVA analysis of Murder and Capital Punishment.
What is the value of the ETA Square? Give it in the form 0.597
10. Is the relationship between CAP PUNISH and Murder 90 statistically
significant
a. yes
b. no
c. only if you're dead
11. This Quiz is based on an article The Crime Drop in America which is
available at:http://crab.rutgers.edu/%7Egoertzel/CrimeDrop.pdfThe
questions can be answered by referring to the article.Looking at Table
2.1, would the regression coefficient for predicting the murder rate by
year, for the period from 1990 to 1997 be: positive, negative or close
to zero?
a. positive
b. negative
c. close to zero
12. Looking at Table 2.1 in "Disaggregating Violence Trends" would the
correlation between murder rates and robbery rates be:
a. positive
b. negative
c. close to zero
13. Looking at Table 2.1, would the correlation between year and murder
rates for the period 1973 to 1997 be
a. positive
b. negative
c. close to zero
14. In Table 2.4, if the score on the "ratio" variable is 15, this
means:
a. there were 15 times as many assaults as murders
b. there were fifteen times as many murders as assaults
c. the assaults were committed by fifteen year olds
d. the likelihood of the relationship being spurious is 15 out of 100
e. the sentence for murder is 15 years
15. According to Table 2.4, the ratio of assaults to murders for people
in their thirties
a. was higher in 1994 than in 1985
b. was lower in 1994 than in 1985
c. was about the same in 1994 as in 1985
16. In Figure 2.7 the lines are:
a.racial groups
b. age groups
c. homicides
d. weapons
e. police officers
17. According to Table 2.11, robbery arrest rates for 18 year olds were
lowest in
a. 1965
b. 1970
c. 1975
d. 1980
e. 1985
f. 1990
g. 1995
18. Looking at Table 2.18, handgun homicides by black youth 18-24 were
highest in:
a. 1990
b. 1991
c. 1992
d. 1993
e. 1994
f. 1995
g. 1997
19. Which crime has the heaviest weight in the violent-crime index:
a. homicide
b. forcible rape
c. robbery
d. aggravated assault
e. kidnapping
20. The increase in incarceration is more likely to have caused a drop
in crime among:
a. younger offenders
b. older offenders
21. Which method is used in this study
a. survey research
b. experiment
c. content analysis
d. analyzing existing statistics
e. field research