Firm believers more likely to be flabby purdue study finds


"Firm Believers More Likely to be Flabby, Purdue Study Finds" reported in March 1998: "Sociology professor Kenneth Ferraro found the correlation between being overweight and being religious was statistically significant regardless of a person's choice of faith."14

a. Was weight (being overweight or not) apparently treated as a quantitative or categorical variable?

b. Was religion (being religious or not) apparently treated as a quantitative or categorical variable?

c. Would the relationship be explored with chi-square or with regression?

d. Explain why "association" would be a better word to use in the circumstances than "correlation."

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