Post and determine whether you are able to understand the “whole picture” of the data or understand the data in its entirety. What might you add to their display and why? What might you change to their display and why?

Please answer to discussions 1 AND 2. Discussion I AND Discussion 2 has graph attached just one paragraph for each

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DISCUSSION 1

Week 2: Displaying Data Results

For verification purposes of the General Social Survey (GSS) dataset, the mean of ‘age’ has been determined as 48.62 (Walden University, 2014). For this discussion board assignment, the variable ‘Have a Gun in the Home’ is being compared with the ‘Respondent Sex’.

Visual Display of a Categorical Variable(s)

A bar graph is one of the most commonly used graphical techniques used by social scientists when they are attempting to provide visualization of nominal or ordinal variables (Frankfort-Nachmias et al., 2021; Laureate Education, 2016). The variables chosen both represent nominal variables that have no intrinsic ordering (Frankfort-Nachmias et al., 2021). The bar graph can be used to illustrate the difference in frequency or percentage of nominal or ordinal variables. This particular bar graph allows for easy recognition of the number or male versus female respondents and their indication of having a gun in their home.

Social Change

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] (2020), gun violence remains a serious concern for citizens of the United States. It is estimated that in 2018, nearly 40,000 firearm-related deaths were reported. Suicides accounted for six of every ten deaths, while homicides are attributed to three of ten deaths (CDC, 2020; Durkin et al., 2020). The analysis of the variables is comprised of (n=342) respondents. Gun violence is a serious issue and it is essential to have both reliable and accurate information regarding usage and possession of firearms in order to promote positive social change through policy changes, educational initiatives and laws that surround this topic (Walden University, 2020). The data is displayed in a bar graph with labels to indicate the sex of the respondent(s) and the number of response(s). The bar graph allows for an easy comparison of ‘yes’ and ‘no’ with respect to the sex of the respondents.

Visual displays of data are useful to show a picture of data collection. There are multiple ways to graphically display data: Bar graphs, pie charts, line charts, scatter charts, and histograms. They each have their usefulness depending on the level of measurement that was acquired (Laureate Education, 2016j). Using the IBM SPSS software, a simple bar graph was designed to display the nominal data gathered from 510 participants regarding their political party affiliation. The bar graph is an appropriate graphic display of data that is comes from ordinal or nominal derivation. The bar graph displays the different categories of a variable and how they compare to one another. In this case, it displays the differences in party affiliation among study participants. The bar graph could show either the percentage or the count of data (Frankfort-Nachmias, 2020).