Using the 2018 GSS, We Regressed the Number of Hours

question 7

Multiple Choice

Using the 2018 GSS, we regressed the number of hours of television watched on the average day on three variables: years of education, age, and marital status. Marital status is a dummy variables with 1 = married. We get the following results for the unstandardized regression coefficients: TVhours = 3.38 - .13Educ + .03Age - .52Married. According to this equation,

• A) there is no association between age and television viewing.
• B) younger people watch more hours of television, on average, than older people.
• C) married people watch fewer hours of television, on average, than unmarried people.
• D) age is more strongly associated with hours of television viewing than marital status.

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