Data Measurement and Variables - Assignment Example

Among the whites, 144 are in rural areas, 142 in suburban areas while the majority; 156 are in urban areas. Brentwood Middle school has the highest number of children in the sample with 84 children of which 80 are whites. In all the selected schools, the whites are the majority. Ridge school has no child from other races in the sample (see table 8). Of the 478 children, 247(51.7%) said their main goal is to make good grades, 141 (29.5) said their main goal was to be popular while the remaining 90 (18.8%) said they wanted to be good in sports (table 9).

Most of the children who took part in the study said being good in sports makes one more popular compared to the other variables. Having good looks was the second aspect which makes one popular followed by making good grades in school. Having a lot of money was least considered by the children as a factor contributing to ones popularity. Although most of the children said their maiden goal is to make good grades in school, they again agree that being good in sports makes one more popular than making good grades, having good looks and having lots of money.

Both white other race children agree that making good grades does not make one popular but being good in sports and having good looks does. In agreement also is the fact that, having lots of money is the least in making one popular. Again, children from all districts; urban, rural and suburban are in agreement that sports makes one popular followed by good looks. Money is the least in