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2.2 A sample of respondents was asked their opinions of the death penalty for convicted murderers and of mercy killing for the terminally ill. The responses are given in the following crosstabulation: a. Why is there no independent or dependent variable? b. Compute total percent for the cross tabulation. c. What percent of the sample favors the use of the death penalty? d. What percent of the sample favors mercy killing? e. What percent of the sample favors both types of killing? f. What percent of the sample opposes both types of killing? g. What percent of the sample favors one type of killing, but not the other? h. What can be concluded about the relationship between the variables?

Solution

a.

Both variables are independent from each other. They show the opinion of a person on two independnet issuess.

Therefore there is no dependent or independent variable.

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b.

Following table shows the total percentage for cross tabulation:

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(c)

There are total 180 respondents in the sample, out of these 180 respondents 133 favor death penalty so required percentage is 73.9%.

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(d)

There are total 180 respondents in the sample, out of these 180 respondents 92 favor mercy killing so required percentage is 51.1%.

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(e)

There are total 180 respondents in the sample, out of these 180 respondents 63 favor both type of killing so required percentage is 35%.

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(f)

There are total 180 respondents in the sample, out of these 180 respondents 10 oppose both type of killing so required percentage is 10%.

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(g)

There are total 180 respondents in the sample, out of these 180 respondents 29+70=99 favor one type of killing oppose other type of killing so required percentage is 55%.

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(h)

From the above calculated percentages, we can see that people who favor the death penalty are likely to oppose mercy killing and people who oppose the death penalty are likely to favor mercy killing.

	Death Penalty
Mercy Killing	Favor	Oppose	Total
Favor	63	29	92
Percentage	(63/180)*100=35%	(29/180)*100=16.1%	(92/180)*100=51.1%
Oppose	70	18	88
Percentage	(70/180)*100=38.9%	(18/180)*100=10%	(88/180)*100=48.9%
Total	133	47	180
Pecentage	(133/180)*100=73.9%	(47/180)*100=26.1%	100%