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Jeff Witmer – Journal of Statistics Education, 2015
There are many well-known data sets that can be used to illustrate Simpson's Paradox. The Stand Your Ground data presented here shows Simpson's Paradox. In these data, race plays the key role--and not in the way that some students expect.
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Minority Groups, Racial Factors, Statistical Data
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Weidner, Robert R.; Terrill, William – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2005
Turk's theory of norm resistance explains how authority-subject relations can be structured in manners that have different probabilities of overt conflict (norm resistance). Building on previous research by Lanza-Kaduce and Greenleaf, this study uses data collected as part of an observational study of the police in Indianapolis, Indiana, and St.…
Descriptors: Conflict, Statistical Data, Probability, Norms