Question: Exercise gave data on height and whether or not a student had ever been bullied for 209 secondary school students in England. Among 92 short students, 42 had been bullied. Among 117 students who were not short, 30 had been bullied.
a. For each height category, calculate the risk of having been bullied.
b. What is the relative risk for short students of having been bullied? Write a sentence that interprets this relative risk.
c. What is the increased risk of having been bullied for short students? Write a sentence that interprets this increased risk.
d. Calculate the odds ratio that compares the odds of having been bullied for the short students to the odds for students who are not short. Write a sentence that interprets this ratio.
Exercise: In a study done in England, Voss and Mulligan (2000) collected data on height (short or not) and whether or not the student had ever been bullied in school for 209 secondary school students.
A student was categorized as short if he or she was below the third percentile for height on school entry, but the researchers intentionally sampled in a way that made short students constitute almost half of the sample.
The following table displays a contingency table of the data.
Height and Bullying in School
Ever Bullied?
Height Yes No Total
Short 42 50 92
Not Short 30 87 117
Total 72 137 209
a. Among students in the "short" category, what percentage have ever been bullied?
b. Among students in the "not short" category, what percentage have ever been bullied?
c. Is there a relationship between height and the likelihood of having been bullied? Briefly justify your answer.