Basic Descriptive Statistics Homework
Basic Descriptive Statistics Homework
You may complete this assignment in pairs. If you do, please indicate who you worked with.
You will need to use the Lifestyles data.sav SPSS file to answer the following questions (uploaded to Canvas).
For all applicable answers, please provide the statistical evidence supporting your answer. Copied and pasted tables from SPSS are acceptable.
1. Is there any evidence that participants have provided inaccurate data or incomplete data? If so, remove these participants from the data set before answering any of the below questions and indicate below which participants were removed and why.
- Note: The ‘Finished’ column indicates whether or not participants completed the survey, and the AttentionCheck item asked participants to choose ‘3’.
Participants20, 36,39,45,46,48,58,70, and 87 were all taken out due to the fact they did not answer “3” to the Attention Check question. Also, row 38-47 were taken out because they were incomplete.
2. What do consumers like most about eating healthily and what the least? What about exercising?
The evidence showed that when it comes to eating healthy people care most about the Taste and care least about the morality of eating healthy.
Then when it comes to it comes to exercising people care most about how it makes you healthier and how it makes you feel, while the consumers care the least about the Time Commitment exercising takes.
You know this by looking at the means of what people answered for each question and comparing them to each other.
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Descriptive Statistics | ||||||||
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N |
Range |
Minimum |
Maximum |
Sum |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
Variance | |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Overall healthiness |
79 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
404 |
5.11 |
1.271 |
1.615 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Difficulty of cooking the meal |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
358 |
4.53 |
1.701 |
2.893 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Availability/Convenience |
79 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
416 |
5.27 |
1.237 |
1.531 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - The morality of eating healthily |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
305 |
3.86 |
1.730 |
2.993 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Impact on how you feel about your body |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
362 |
4.58 |
1.566 |
2.451 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Taste |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
425 |
5.38 |
1.284 |
1.649 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Impact on your weight |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
331 |
4.19 |
1.895 |
3.592 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Cost |
79 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
399 |
5.05 |
1.484 |
2.203 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - How you'll feel afterwards |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
371 |
4.70 |
1.453 |
2.112 |
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What do you decide to eat a healthy meal, how much do you typically consider each of the following when making that decision? - Prep time |
79 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
369 |
4.67 |
1.500 |
2.249 |
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Valid N (listwise) |
79 |
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Descriptive Statistics | |||||
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N |
Range |
Mean |
Std. Deviation |
Variance | |
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What do you like most about exercising? - Positive impact on body image |
79 |
6 |
2.13 |
1.314 |
1.727 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - Sense of competition |
79 |
6 |
3.27 |
1.802 |
3.249 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - Exercising with other people |
79 |
6 |
3.92 |
1.647 |
2.712 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - Time commitment |
79 |
6 |
4.05 |
1.584 |
2.510 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - It feels good afterwards |
79 |
6 |
2.22 |
1.456 |
2.120 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - It feels good during |
79 |
6 |
2.67 |
1.491 |
2.224 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - Makes you stronger |
79 |
5 |
2.08 |
1.217 |
1.481 |
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What do you like most about exercising? - Makes you healthier |
79 |
6 |
2.05 |
1.501 |
2.254 |
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Valid N (listwise) |
79 |
3. Which form of exercise do consumers participate in the most?
- Note: you will need to code the open-ended responses to the OtherCardio, OtherExercise, and SomethingElse categories to answer this question
It appears that people think the best way to exercise is by either weightlifting or running, both came in with 48 votes.
4. Pick one of the two: Are men or women more likely to lead an overall healthy lifestyle? OR Are men or women more likely to read labels?
I ended up comparing the means between Men and Women for the question “How healthy of a lifestyle would you say you lead?” I found that they are very close in means and you could easily say that they could equally live a healthy lifestyle even though men beat women by .16.
