1. Regarding Table 1, what is your reaction to the actual percentages as compared to what you might have predicted?
2. Regarding Tables 2 and 2b, provide a written, lay interpretation of the data (i.e. written for a newspaper-reading audience) as represented by these tables, citing key percentages from the tables which support your interpretation and making any relevant comparisons: What is the overall trend in the data? What might explain these findings? If relevant, cite course material.
3. Regarding Tables 3a and 3b, provide a written, lay interpretation of the data (i.e. written for a newspaper-reading audience), citing key percentages from the tables which support your interpretation What is the overall trend in the data? How has this relationship changed over time? What do you make of these changes? If relevant, cite course material.
4. Regarding Table 4, provide a written, lay interpretation of the data (i.e. written for a newspaper-reading audience), citing key percentages from the tables which support your interpretation What is the overall trend in the data? How has this relationship changed over time? What do you make of these findings? If relevant, cite course material.
5. Given what you have seen regarding the relationship between education and family income, and how this has varied over time and between races, what have you learned
about the relevance of education? What have you learned about the relevance of race? What might explain these findings?
6. Overall, what are the limitations of an analysis of data based on crosstabs like all the tables you created for this assignment?
7. Write a curiosity question (i.e. a question youre curious about) regarding the relationship between the variables used in this assignment given what youve seen in your analysis of the data. What question (or questions!) arises from what you have seen in the data? What makes this an interesting, sociological question?
Grading Criteria:
1. Completeness. All analyses have been done fully and correctly; all questions have been answered.
2. Thoughtfulness/Depth. The degree to which the student put significant thought into the interpretation of the results; integration of course material if/where appropriate.
3. Professional writing. The paper is expected to be professionally written and formatted. Proofreading multiple times, spellcheck, etc., are always a good idea.
