Is astrology scientific? The General Social Survey asked a random sample of adults their

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Is astrology scientific? The General Social Survey asked a random sample of adults their opinion about whether astrology is very scientific, sort of scientific, or not at all scientific. Here is a two-way table of counts for people in the sample who had three levels of higher education:22 Degree Held Associates Bachelors Masters Not at all scientific 169 256 114 Very or sort of scientific 65 65 18 Make a well-labeled bar graph that compares opinions about astrology for the three education categories. Describe what you see.

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Is astrology scientific? The General Social Survey asked a random sample of adults their opinion about whether astrology is very scientific, sort of scientific, or not at all scientific. Here is a two-way table of counts for people in the sample who had three levels of higher education:22 Degree Held Associates Bachelors Masters Not at all scientific 169 256 114 Very or sort of scientific 65 65 18 Make a well-labeled bar graph that compares opinions about astrology for the three education categories. Describe what you see.

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The proportion in each group is the number of subjects divided by the row total.

Associate’s

Bachelor’s

Master’s

Not at all scientific

0.7222

0.7975

0.8636

Very or sort of scientific

0.2778

0.2025

0.1364

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