Political Split on Iraqi War

The purpose of this study is to examine the support for and opposition to the policies and actions of President Bush with respect to the war on Iraq with an objective of assessing the credibility of a gender gap on this issue. Two hypotheses are tested in this study, as follows:

Support for or opposition to the policies and action of President Bush in relation to the war on Iraq does not vary to a statistically significant extent in relation to the gender of adult Americans.

Support for or opposition to the policies and action of President Bush in relation to the war on Iraq does vary to a statistically significant extent in relation to the level of formal educational attainment of adult Americans; however, these variations lose their significance when gender is factored into the equation.

The data required to test the hypotheses were obtained from the Pew Rese

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f the null hypothesis was a finding of significance in the variations in the values of the dependent variables at p<.05. Confidence Intervals Confidence intervals provide a range of responses around the mean value of a variable at a specified level of confidence. For this study, the specified level of confidence is 95%, which means that 19 times out of 20 sample of a given population will yield a mean value within the confidence interval range. The confidence intervals are presented separately by question investigated. Approve or Disapprove of the PresidentÆs Dealing with the War Males: Mean response: 1.53 Sample size: 415 Standard deviation: 1.645 Value of 95% confidence: 1.96 Confidence Interval = 1.53 + 1.96(1.645/SqRt415) = 1.53 + 0.16 Lower Limit of Confidence = 1.37 Upper Limit of Confidence = 1.69 Females: Mean response: 1.70 Sample size: 457 Standard deviation: 1.997 Value of 95% confidence: 1.96 Confidence Interval = 1.70 + 1.96(1.997/SqRt457) = 1.70 + 0.18 Lower Limit of Confidence = 1.52 Upper Limit of Confidence = 1.88 Total: Mean response: 1.62 Sample size: 872 Standard deviation: 1.841 Value of 95% confidence: 1.96 Confidence Interval = 1.62 + 1.96(1.841/SqRt872) = 1.62 + 0.12 Lower Limit of Confidence = 1.50 Upper
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