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Clifton A. Sanders Tuskegee University Project 4 SOWK 300
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Hypothesis: does grade classification progress or regress marijuana use? In this paper I try to figure out do college older college students smoke more then younger college student. I think that they do because the older u get the more work it is. What I experienced in school the workload do get much harder. The workload goes up, you have due date. papers etc. this can drive a upper classmen to smoke more. Then you have the lower classmen which workload is simple may not smoke more then the upper classmen because the stress level isn’t that high. So they smoke less or not at all. So that’s why I think that upper classmen smoke more then lower classmen.
Rationale
Like I was explaining in my hypothesis the upper classmen will smoke more then the lower classmen do to stress levels. Upper classmen are face with harder work and perfection vs. the lower class students that have basic classes. Also upper classmen smoke more because they have be expose to marijuana then lower classmen. That’s how my independent variable affect my dependent variable. Whites upper classmen smoke more then black upperclassmen. In my report it shows that whites smoke more marijuana then black from there freshmen to senior year by at least 40%.
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Results Bivariate Table Marijuana by Grade Respondents Grade _________________________________________________________ Marijuana Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Row total _______________________________________________________________________ _ Not Reported
5
8
7
3
23
0-2 times
200
210
139
137
686
3-39 times
26
54
27
27
134
20-100 times
46
47
30
30
153
Total
27.8
32.0
20.4
19.8
100
(N)
277
319
203
197
996
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Multivariate Table Marijuana by Race Black Respondents Grade ________________________________________________________ Marijuana
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
6
3
1
0-2 times
120
133
3-39 times
11
20
11
20-100 times
30
33
17
17
97
Total
29.4
33.3
18.5
18.8
100.0
Not Reported
Senior
1
76
Row total
11
75 14
404 56
(N) 167 189 105 107 568 _______________________________________________________________________ _ White Not Reported
7
4
4
2
17
0-2 times
394
451
291
319
1455
3-39 times
88
129
93
102
419
20-100 times
147
187
128
140
602
Total
25.6
31.0
20.8
22.6
100.0
(N) 636 771 516 563 2486 _______________________________________________________________________ _ Discussion In my results I find that whites smoke more marijuana then blacks overall and lower classmen smoke more then upperclassmen . Starting with black freshmen 120
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students said they tried it twice, 11 freshmen said they smoke marijuana 3-39 times while 30 said they smoked 20-100 which make the average 29.4 %. Sophomores 133 students smoke 0-2 times 20 said they smoke 3-39 times and 33 sophomores said they smoke 20-100 times which makes there average 33.3 % . 76 Juniors said that they smoke marijuana 0-2times 11 reported they smoke 3-39 times and 17 smoke marijuana 20-100times. Finially you have seniors. 75 % said they smoked 0-2times 14% said they smoke 3-39times and 17 % said they did it 20-100times which brings blacks row total 568 blacks they have tried marijuana from freshmen to senior year.
Then you have whites smokers. Freshmen 394 white students said they smoke weed 02times 88 students said they tried it 3-39times 147 said they smoke 20-100times which bring the freshmen total 636. Sophomores 451 said they tried it 0-2times 129 smoked it 3-39times and 187 sophomores said they smoke marijuana 20-100times making the total 771. 291 Juniors smoked 0-2times 93 smoked 3-39times and 128 juniors smoked weed 20-100times.bringing their total to516. Finially u have seniors 319 said they smoke twice 102 students smoke 3-39times and 104 smoked 20-100times. All together 277 black and white freshmen smoke weed . Sophomore have 319. Juniors 203 and seniors 197. So in my conclusion lower classmen smoke more marijuana then upper classmen.
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