Post, present, and report a descriptive analysis for your variables, specifically noting the following:

For your continuous variable:

1. Report the mean, median, and mode.
2. What might be the better measure for central tendency? (i.e., mean, median, or mode) and why?
3. Report the standard deviation.
4. How variable are the data?
5. How would you describe this data?
6. What sort of research question would this variable help answer that might inform social change?

Statistics HIGHEST YEAR OF SCHOOL COMPLETED N Valid 50? Missing 0 Mean 14.29 Median 15.00 - Mode 16 Std. Deviation 3353 Mini mum 2 Maximum 20 Percentiles 25 50 75 POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION Valid Cumulative Frequency Percent Percent Percent Valid STRONG 96 18.9 19.3 19.3 DEMOCRAT NOT STR 98 19.3 19.7 39.0 DEMOCRAT IND NEAR DEM 86 17.0 17.3 56.2 INDEPENDENT 96 18.9 19.3 75.5 IND NEAR REP 37 7.3 7.4 82.9 NOT STR 47 9.3 9.4 92.4 REPUBLICAN STRONG 29 5.7 5.8 98.2 REPUBLICAN OTHER PARTY 9 1.8 1.8 100.0 Total 498 98.2 100.0 Missing DK 1 .2 NA 8 1.6 Total 1.8 Total 507 100.0\f