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Zaino, 2007). The sample consisted of 2,023 U.S adults. The responses for these individuals were collected
by “face-to-face household interviews” and the GSS survey was conducted in a manner that would be
representative of the population of the United States (Babbie, Halley, & Zaino, 2007).
METHOD:
Now that we have established the data source for our empirical research, we will describe the
specific methods used to test our hypothesis. As we mentioned earlier, the goal was to test the relationship
between the independent variable “Highest years of school completed” and the dependent variable “political
tolerance index”. The first action that was performed was creating a frequency distribution of the
dependent variable. The frequency table and the results are shown below (See Table A).
TABLE A
Cumulative
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Percent
Valid Low Tolerance 3 .1 .3 .3
1.00 27 1.3 2.4 2.6
2.00 27 1.3 2.4 5.0
3.00 21 1.0 1.8 6.8
4.00 60 3.0 5.2 12.0
5.00 58 2.9 5.1 17.1
6.00 54 2.7 4.7 21.8
7.00 58 2.9 5.1 26.9
8.00 58 2.9 5.1 31.9
9.00 70 3.5 6.1 38.0
10.00 70 3.5 6.1 44.2
11.00 93 4.6 8.1 52.3
12.00 126 6.2 11.0 63.3
13.00 128 6.3 11.2 74.4
14.00 279 13.8 24.3 98.8
15.00 High Tolerance 14 .7 1.2 100.0
Total 1146 56.6 100.0
Missing System 877 43.4
Total 2023 100.0
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