Question
For the "FL student survey" data, the forrelation betweeny=political idiology (scored 1= very liberal to 7=veryconservative) and x=number of times a week reading a newspaper is-0.07. a) would you call this association strong or weak? Explain. b) the correlation between political ideology and religiosity(how often atten religious services) is 0.58. For thissample, which explanatory variable, newspaper reading orreligiosity, seems to have a stronger association with y? Explain. For the "FL student survey" data, the forrelation betweeny=political idiology (scored 1= very liberal to 7=veryconservative) and x=number of times a week reading a newspaper is-0.07. a) would you call this association strong or weak? Explain. b) the correlation between political ideology and religiosity(how often atten religious services) is 0.58. For thissample, which explanatory variable, newspaper reading orreligiosity, seems to have a stronger association with y? Explain.
Explanation / Answer
this regression would look like this y= B1 - 0.07x(where B1 is the y-intercept, which isn't given). So for each additional time that someone reads a newpaper theirpolitical idiology score falls by 0.07. So in order to dropone political idiology point they would have to read the papermore than 14 times a week.' A. this is a weak association as explained above. B. if we make the parameter in front of x 0.58 then foreach time some attends a religious service they increase theirpolitical ideology score by 0.58. So with just 2 timesattending there score increase by 1. This is a much strongerassociation than number of times that some reads thepaper.