Dipping our toe into the
quantitative
We’re
going to work with the data for ENVELOPE
I’ve
‘cleaned’ this data set.
What
that means
LOGON AND ACCESS our class via
webpage
a. pull
down cleaned-up data and open and read envelop-tape-r.txt
b.
download ENVdataNo-0r.xls to desktop
Task 1: Sum the ages -- put cursor below last age in
column and click the Sigma
Task 2: Average of ages – erase the sum. Put cursor in
same place, pull down the arrow beside the Sigma and click average
Task 3: Highlight
and copy all the a-file, and scroll down and paste it below all the data,
pasting around line 88
Task 4: Descriptive
picture
Highlight
the numbers for age and click Insert – try a pie chart. Now try a bar chart.
What did you learn?
Make a
pie chart for the numbers under Fam_class
Now
recode the data in fam class: you have
Class
number
1 2
2 5
3 2
5 1
Why don’t
you put the 4 in?
Retype
this new data to the spread sheet
Highlight
the data, including the titles
Now
insert a pie chart
What did
you learn?
Task 5: Look at what could be interesting questions to
ask:
Age x
friendly, or what else?
Class x
Locale x
Moth ed x
Fath ed x
Choose
and graph a set. Do what you have to do to make meaning.
Task 6: a jump to spss
Open spss
(maximize the novell programs and select spss; it loads slowly)
Close the
window that asks what you want to work with – if it opens
Pull down
OPEN under
You’re
going to open
From the
DESKTOP
Kind of
file: EXCEL
And yes,
you want it to read the variable names
Pull down
ANALYZE
To
DESCRIPTIVE
Do
Frequencies using Mother’s Ed
Look at
what the table tells you
Get rid
of that output window by Xing the top right corner
Task 7: chi-square via crosstabs
Pull down
ANALYZE,
To
DESCRIPTIVE
Select
CROSSTABS
In the
window, put Father’s Ed in the first and Friendly in the second
Click to
check “Statistics”
Select
chi square
Click OK
Save it
to the desktop or pull it down
Redo, by
putting Father’s Ed back and putting FamClass in the first window
We’ll
discuss what you’ve just learned from reading the two tables
Task 8: correlations
Let’s see
if family class, perception of locale, mother’s
education and father’s education are connected to/associated with the
perception of a speaker as friendly.
Pull down
ANALYZE and select CORRELATE and choose bivariate. In the window, check Pearson
and Two-tailed. Check ‘flag significant correlations’.
Click on
each of the 5 variables so that they go into the Variable window. Click OK
We will
discuss what you just learned from reading the table.
If we
have time, we’ll run the same variables against POLITE.
And that
will be enough for tonight --
Trying
CENTRA
http://centraone.uncc.edu/main/User/GuestAttend.jhtml?s_guid=000000ae139300000108ee83d060829f
with
luck, this link will work and you can ‘attend’ --
otherwise,
copy it into your browser window and ‘go there’
Once you
are there:
1. run
the system check as recommended (you’ll need to do this on your home computer
if you are planning to use it, otherwise you need to check yr lab or office
computer)
2. then
go to the EVENT