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This 5 page paper examines statistics about high risk behavior from one source, summarizes three articles that discuss various types of risky behavior, and compares the original statistics with those given in the articles. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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far off that happens to other people. Perhaps it is this sense of their own immortality that leads so many young people into risky behavior. This paper examines
statistics about high risk behavior from one source, summarizes three articles that discuss various types of risky behavior, and compares the original statistics with those given in the articles. The
Statistics and a Hypothesis There are five sets of statistics presented with this case. The first is a "gender-date" array of arrest statistics, which reveals that overall, more
men than women are arrested, and that slightly more men are arrested on the weekend than during the week; the same holds true for women. The chi-square tests applied
to this statistic reveal 143 valid cases out of 143 examples. The second set of statistics is a "gender-charge" statistic (the charge is driving under the influence), and here the
picture changes. For one thing, there are substantially more arrests: 181 to 143, indicating that drinking is a problem for this age group. Here again the men outnumber
the women: 69 men were arrested for DUI compared to 8 women; and 89 men were arrested for non-DUI offenses as compared to 21 women. The chi-square tests
applied here validate all 181 cases. The third is a "date-charge" set of statistics, indicating when the arrests occurred. Perhaps not surprisingly, most of the DUI arrests took place
on the weekends. DUI arrests were 44 on the weekend and 16 during the week; however, non-DUI arrests numbered 33 on the weekend but 53 during the week.
The chi-square tests validated 146 out of 146 cases. We might formulate a hypothesis from these figures that more men are arrested than women; more DUI offenses occur on the
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