Question: You are faced with the problem of why people who are convicted of the same crime get different sentences. You believe this is due to demographic factors such as age, gender, and educational level. You also think some personal characteristics may come into play such as intelligence. Also, there may be so personality dimensions such as pychopathy. Therefore, you collect the following data set:




Using the data above, how would you answer the following:

A) Are age and gender related (i.e. are men and women the same age)?
B) Are offense and psychopathy related?
C) Are age and sentence related?
D) Are offense and sentence related?
E) How important are each of the “independent” factors in determining sentence?

What statistical test would you use for each of the above. Why did you choose that test.