Qusetion: Use the GSS-08 dataset on the companion website. The variable degree indicates the highest educational degree achieved by a respondent.
a. Is the degree variable quantitative, categorical, or ordinal? Explain.
b. Determine the number and percentage falling into each degree category.
c. What percentage of the sample has a degree that is beyond a high school degree?
d. The variable tvhours is the self-reported number of hours of watching television in a typical day. Find the mean number of television-watching hours for each of the five degree groups.
e. Is there a relationship between self-reported hours of watching television and educational degree? Explain.
f. Draw any visual summary of the variable tvhours (for the whole sample). What are the interesting features of your graph?