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Meghan McGrory Writing Assignment #4 SOC 125 Professor Anderson 1) What is the difference between the two bar graphs above, and which graph would be better to use and why? (2 points) The difference between the two bar graphs above is that one uses percentage and the other counts of married and unmarried people. The better graph to use would be the percentage graph because it's easier to read. 2) Indicate from the graph above which category contains a higher percentage of freshmen in college, the typical college graduate (Hint: add 4 to your senior year), and graduate school. (3 points) The category that contains a higher percentage of freshmen in college is males, college graduates are males and graduate school is males. 3) What advantage or disadvantage do you see in including missing values? (3 points) An advantage I see when including missing values is that all data is utilized giving more information and therefore making a full circle pie graph. Another is that because all the data is being used, it keeps the sample how it was. An disadvantage would be that the study would become more in depth due to the missing values. 4) In your opinion, which type of graph gives a better idea of the distribution of the variable income? What advantages are there for each of using a bar chart, pie chart, and histogram? (3 points) In my opinion, the type of graph that gives a better idea of the distribution of the variable income is the bar chart graph because it is easier to read over all. Both graphs contain many variables and the pie chart with all the different colors makes them hard to tell which color is which. Advantages for using a bar chart is that they display ‘compacted’ numerical data for a variety of variables, a pie chart details size and amounts and a histogram helps understand distribution. 5) Which histogram tells us more about the data? What are we able to determine by looking at these two histograms? (3 points)

The histogram that tells us more about the data is the second one . We are able to determine by looking at these two histograms that there was a peak in the age group 40 to 50 years, the bars remain high from 20 to 60 years, after 60 the bar starts to decrease and there are some outliers. 6) Describe the differences and similarities in distribution for the variable spouse years of education for both men and women. Note: There are many ways to answer this question but be sure to highlight the key features. (3 points) The similarities in distribution for the variable spouse years of education for both men and women are that both spouses have the same amount of education, the spread of education years is also similar and there are outliers found in both. The differences are that the years that female spouses attended school are slightly higher than male spouses, there is an outlier at a higher year in the male distribution and the spread for overall years educated is wider for females. 7) Give the five-number summary for men and women separately for each of the five categories of education level attained. Use the best estimate judging from the graph. (3 points) LT HIGH SCHOOL Men: ● Highest value is 186. ● Third Quartile is 149. ● Median is 37. ● First Quartile is 0. ● Lowest value is 0. Women: ● Highest value is 244. ● Third Quartile is 205. ● Median is 39. ● First Quartile is 0. ● Lowest value is 0. HIGH SCHOOL Men: ● Highest value is 634.

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