To: "Timothy Kubal" <tkubal@csufresno.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 1:49:08 PM
Subject: Oral Presentation
We can see from this table that there is a statistically significant relationship between race and one's opinion about whether people would like to see more or less government spending regarding hunger. The significance value is 0.034, which is below the cutoff of 0.05. Looking at the crosstab table, we see that the "Spend much more" row Is one of the most important, because the residual for Hispanics and the answer of spend much more, which is -.8. This means that Hispanics were less likely to want the government to spend much more on children and families on hunger. Also the other group had a standardized residual of positive 1.8 for the "spend much more" answer. This means that the other group was more likely to want the government to spend much more on hunger. The standardized residuals also relate to the percentages, in that we can see that Hispanics have a low percentage of spending much more responses, and the other group have a high percentage of spending much more response. Only 5.3% of Hispanics spend much more, and only 6.1% of Whites spend much more, while 11.0% of the other group spends much more. It appears that the other group wants to spend much more on hunger. It appears that Hispanics, compared to others, are not likely to want the government to spend much more on hunger.
Another important row in the table is the "Spend Less " row. Here we can see that the other group had a standardized residual of -2.2 . This means that the other group was less likely to want the government to spend less on hunger. Another important standardize residual in this row is the 1.8 for whites. This means that whites are more likely than we expected to want the government to spend less. We can see a similar pattern when we look at the percentages. 6% of others want the government to spend less. 14.1% of Hispanics said to spend less. 19.6% of whites said to spend less. Whites are most likely of all race groups to spend less on hunger for poor children and families, and others are least likely of all race groups to want to spend less on hunger for poor children and families. .
The overall findings in this table showed that the "other group" (Hispanics and Asians) are most likely to say the government should spend much more on hunger, and whites are most likely to want to spend less on hunger. Why are whites more likely than Hispanics or Asians and African Americans to want to see the government spend less on poor children and families regarding hunger? Whites in the U.S. are more likely than African Americans or Hispanics to come from middle or upper class because they don't have to worry about going hungry. I believe that whites are less likely to be exposed to homeless and food insecurity, compared to African Americans and Hispanics, who may have been more likely than whites to have been exposed to homeless and food insecurity. This can possibly be the case that Whites don't care too much about hunger because they don't see it in their environment or experience it, than minority groups like African- Americans, Hispanics, and Asians do experience it within their environment.
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