They are, I've discovered, reluctant to examine hypotheses about race, but hypotheses about the effect of parental divorce on children's attitudes are popular. Many believe firmly that those whose parents have divorced are likely to be more cautious in their attitudes towards marriage. They can cross-tab Greek membership by It's o.k. to have sex on the first date. They are to attach the computer printouts. The TAs also offer extra office hours in the UDAL lab in McNeil to those who struggle with our handouts on how to use Stata, the statistical package.
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They start to do what scientists often do, to recognize the inadequacies of the available data or the sample. So they cross-tab the data by the gender of the respondent. Ask a different question next time, they suggest. Or they claim that Penn students are different, a better sample is required. Some of them will go on to take more sociology courses, and a few of them become majors.