Read the article and answer the questions
1. What does the beta for ?exposure to sex on television? indicate? If significant, what is its relative strength?
2. What does the beta for ?lower grades? indicate? If significant, what is its relative strength?
3. What does the beta for ?lives in 2-parent household? indicate? If significant, what is its relative strength?
4. Does this study establish temporal precedence? Why or why not?
5. What additional third variables might you control for, if you were interested in the effect of sex on TV and teen pregnancy?
6. How would you respond to a friend that says, ?Watching sex on TV predicts teen pregnancy, but that?s only because those kids are total deviants anyway. Deviant kids watch bad TV and they are more likely to get pregnant. That?s all.??
The article
