Acceptance of Homosexuals in the Westminster Community

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Acceptance of Homosexuals in the Westminster
Community

• Sarah Carver

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Individual Variable Graphs
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Some Findings

• -55.6 of students said they were a member of an
  organized religion.
• -95 confidence interval
• (.423, .688)
• -79.6 of students said they were aware of a
  friend or family member who is homosexual.
• -95 confidence interval
• (.689, .904)

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Hypothesis Test

• Null Hypothesis Religion and Know are
  Independent
• Alternative Hypothesis Religion and Know are
  Dependent
• Chi-square test
• chi-square .365
• p-value .546
• Conclusion fail to reject the null hypothesis,
  insufficient evidence to conclude that Religion
  and Know are dependent of each other.

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Further Analyses

• Proportions of Acceptance
• - 81.5 of people were accepting of homosexuals
  in our society.
• - 70.4 of people were accepting of same sex
  marriage.
• Note the decrease from homosexuals in our society
  to them getting married

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Graphs
Here is a helpful legend to understand what each
number represents 1-completely not
accepting 2-somewhat not accepting 3-neutral 4-
somewhat accepting 5-completely accepting
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Psychology

• Schema Formations
• Operant Conditioning
• Culture
• Subjective Reality