Questions (Part 2):

1. Write a sentence describing what the beta for "child's gender" means.

2. Now write a sentence describing what the beta for "Socioeconomic status at 54

months" means.

3. Now write a sentence describing what the beta for "Authoritarian parenting attitudes

at 1 month" means.

a. Ask a question about the construct validity of two of the key variables in this study.

b. Ask a question about the external validity of this study.

c. What statement can you make about the internal validity of this study? Would an

experiment be better?

4. Does this study establish temporal precedence? Why or why not?

5. What additional third variables might you want to control for, if you were interested in

the relationship between parental attitudes and political conservatism?

6. A friend looks at these data and says, "The only reason authoritarian parenting is

associated with adult conservatism is just income-richer parents are probably more

authoritarian, and richer parents are going to have more conservative kids." What do you

say in response?