Question

A child care organization commissioned a random survey to identify attitudes toward child-raising. A topic of interest was the difference between the beliefs of men and women regarding discipline. The follow table reports data on men’s and women’s attitudes toward spanking.
Attitudes toward Spanking by Respondent Gender
Favor Spanking
Male
Female
Strongly
115
107
Somewhat
212
221
Oppose
73
109
Strongly oppose
18
42
Chi-square = 13.1, degrees of freedom = 3, significance = 0.004.

What are the implications of the findings presented in exercise 9.2? Do you consider the table an interesting observation, a question for further study, or something else?
2. A finding of statistical significance can be persuasive. What other evidence should the child care organization present so that parents and other stakeholders are able to evaluate the findings?

Answer 1

1. The implications of the study are to find out that what status spanking enjoys among the people of the country. Understanding that which gender supports or opposes more the act of spanking is quite important to know that who might actually punish their children physically. The table is a question for further study to answer some questions about physical or corporal punishment.

2. The findings show that the attitude towards spanking is dependent on gender. To know more about the results, the effect size would give more evidence to the results as it will tell the magnitude of the effect of the results. Hence, calculating a statistic like Cramer's V will be useful