Gender and Toys
A study was conducted by an organization that looked at children to understand whether there is an association between gender and types of toys chosen (mechanical toys or stuffed toys).
Mechanical includes guns, cars, walkie-talkies, etc.; stuffed toys include teddy bears, plush puppets, sock monkeys, etc. The raw data are shown in the accompanying table; m for mechanical, s for stuffed toys, b for boy, and g for girl.
Create a two-way table to summarize these data. Notice that the two variables are categorical, as can be seen from the raw data. If you are doing this by hand, create a table with two rows and two columns.
Label the columns Boys and Girls (across the top). Label the rows Mechanical Toys and Stuffed Toys.
Begin with a big table, making a tally mark in one of the four cells for each observation, and then summarize the tally marks as counts.