research methods statistics

  Concept question.

1. Are military veteran in North Carolina more likely to support free health care than non veterans.

2. Clarify your concept.
3. Military veteran                                             non veteran
4. Support the free health care                       does not support free health care
5. Is older                                                       Is younger
6. Have many health issues                            Has fewer health issues
7. Retire at early age                                       Retire at a latter age
8. Have some type of free health care           Have to pay for health care

1. Define your concept
2. The concept of military veteran is defined as the extent to which individual characters exhibit characteristic of supporting free health care by the government
3. The concept of a non veteran is defined as the extent to which individual characteristics of supporting privatized health care.

4. What is your concept(s) management strategy ( operational definition)?
5. The concept of political tolerance is defined as the extent to which individuals exhibit the characteristic of expressing a willingness to allow free heatlth care for everyone
6.   What are your variables?
7. What is this person military affiliation?
8.   What is this person maritual status?
9.   what is this person health status?
10.   What is the person education level?
11. What is the person age?
12.   What is the person race?  Gender?
13.   What is the person political affiliation?

6.   What are your variable level of measurement.
7. The variable level of measurement would be ordinal variable.  I am looking for those who strongly favorable in support of free health care and those who are not.
8. Nominal level variable to measure the political affilliation and age who support free health verses those who do not.
9.   Describle the connection between your two variables?
10.   Do age, education, income  and political affiliation play a role in support of free health care?  Do veteran with higher education favor free health care versus non veteran?

8. Which is the independent variable and which the dependent variable? (Chapter 3, p. 50)
9. The dependent variable is why do Veterans and low-med income non veterans (civilians) favor free heatlth care. While most veteran who are Officers and high income civilians favor privatized health care. Most successful non veteran with higher education are more likely to vote for privatized health care over free health care because they have the income  to pay for better health care than those with lesser educations.  In contrast veteran are more likely to vote for free health care although they may have the same education level.

9. State your null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. (Chapter 3, pp. 54-58)•In a comparison of units of analysis, those having one value on the independent variablewill be more likely to have one value on the dependent variable than will those having a different value on the independent variable
10. On hypothesis is the most non veteran that is educated and succesful will be in favor or privatized health care. On the other hand,  most veteran, the most veteran will be in favor of free health care.
11. What is the most appropriate research design to test your hypothesis? Explain your answer. (Chapter 4, pp. 80-84)•Laboratory Experiment, Field Experiment, Random Assignment?•What are the limitations of your research design?
12. The appropriate research design would be a field experiment.  This could be done using a survey.  With advancement in techology, using social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Snap would increase the number of individual being reach.

11. What might be a rival explanation(s) for your hypothesis and why?What effect do think your control variable(s) (rival explanation)may have on the relationship between your independent (X) and dependent (Y) variables?(Chapter 4, pp. 78-79, 86-96)