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Hypothesis: Women will likely view the economy worse because of their lower standing economically.

Conclusion: The results of our test reaffirm our hypothesis. More women not only view the economy as fair, but poor as well. Men, on the other hand, seem to view the economy more optimistically. Very few women would rate current economic conditions as excellent, while men are about three times likelier to view it so. Again, these positive perceptions can be attributed to the larger amount of opportunities for men in the current economy.

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Hypothesis: Males will be generally more republican than females.

Conclusion: According to the graph, it shows that males are more republican than women and more strong republican.

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 Vitamin R                  Hypothesis: We hypothesized that there would be a strong,
almost perfect association, between the lack of support for fracking, and a
person’s level of concern for climate change.                                         Outcome: We found this to be mostly true. As a person’s concern for climate
change grew, so did their opposition of hydraulic fracturing. This was a safe
guess, however; the outcome was not as strongly associated as we thought. It
still follows our hypothesis in most of the columns, but not as strongly as we
predicted.

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 Vitamin R                  Hypothesis: We hypothesized that there would be a strong,
almost perfect association, between the lack of support for fracking, and a
person’s level of concern for climate change.                                         Outcome: We found this to be mostly true. As a person’s concern for climate
change grew, so did their opposition of hydraulic fracturing. This was a safe
guess, however; the outcome was not as strongly associated as we thought. It
still follows our hypothesis in most of the columns, but not as strongly as we
predicted.

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Research Question: Does your political ideology affect the way you feel about the fairness of voting.

Hypothesis: Liberal ideology will trust the voting more because they are more opened minded and progressive to the current voting processes and new voting technology.

Conclusion: The data shows the more liberal you tend to be the more trustworthy you are to the current voting process. While the conservative is the opposite. Conservative will not trust the voting process of the current election system. Thus are hypothesis was correct. Liberals are more trustworthy of the voting system. While most people who identify as independent will tend to lean towards either liberal or conservative view on trustworthiness on voting. Since they do not specifically state their political ideology, the results of the data is skewed and do not make sense.

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Hypothesis: We hypothesize that the more education a state has, the more democratic it will be.

Conclusion: The data shows that for those who are most Republican, there is the lowest amount of education. For middle ground on the ideology scale, the amount of education wins the majority. As for most democratic, there is the highest amount of education represented. There is a larger jump of education between most Republican and Even. In conclusion, our hypothesis proved to be correct.

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Hypothesis: The more interested in politics someone is, the higher the likelihood that they will identify as a Democrat. We think this is true because Republican policies tend to isolate people while Democratic policies tend to bring people in meaning that as people get isolated they get involved with the Democratic party.

Conclusion: That hypothesis is true, but not as strongly as we thought because there is still a very significant portion of Republicans that are very interested in politics, just not as significant as the portion of Democrats that are very interested. It is interesting to note that the "other political party" option is there, but very small across the board. The portion of strong Republicans that are not involved is nearly nonexistent. Across the board however, the portion of people that are not interested at all is very small.

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Hypothesis: For our analysis we decided to look at party ID and compare it to how optimistic the individual was in terms of the economy in Colorado. With options varying between excellent, good, average, fair, and poor we predicted that individuals who are Republican have  less favorable rating of Colorados future economy. Since the legislature in Colorado is largely democrat, including the governor, we assume that republicans will not favor the economic policies as much as democrats will.

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Hypothesis: Education will have an affect on people's attitude towards fracking. The higher level of education that one obtains, will ultimately increase their awareness of environmental issues and as a result they will not support the use of fracking.

Conclusion: Through collecting data, we have sucessfully concluded that education does in fact have an effect on people’s attitudes towards fracking. As shown through the data, the higher the level on an individual's education, the higher his or hers environmental awareness will be and thus will be likely to oppose fracking.

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Hypothesis: We wanted to know how education effects people's interest in government and public affairs. We expect to see that the more educated a person is, the more interested they are likely to be in government and political affairs.

dependent variable (x) = how interested people are in government. The lighter the color the more interested they are.

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Question: How does a voter's gender identification relate to their preferred candidate for congress.

Hypothesis: We believe that Men will tend to vote more republican and Women will vote more democrat in congressional races.

Analysis: Based on the mosaic plot we generated comparing gender identification and party they would vote for, our hypothesis was correct but not by much. There are more women who said that they would vote for the democratic congressional candidates. However, the difference is very small and almost insignificant.

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Hypothesis: We believe that based on the gender and sexual orientation of an individual it will have a strong influence on whether they choose to vote for Trump or Clinton. The more liberal an individual stands politically, will sway them towards Clinton's viewpoints.

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Hypothesis: Party ideology will have an effect on voters deciding whether taxes should be raised or not. Amendment 69, establishing Colorado a statewide healthcare system through a tax increase. This amendment will receive less support from the republican party members thus receiving large support from the  democratic party members.

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Hypothesis: Party ideology will have an effect on voters deciding whether taxes should be raised or not. Amendment 69, establishing Colorado a statewide healthcare system through a tax increase. This amendment will receive less support from the republican party members thus receiving large support from the  democratic party members.

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Hypothesis: We expect to see that the higher education a person has, the more likely they are to be

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Hypothesis: Party ideology will have an effect on voters deciding whether taxes should be raised or not. Amendment 69, establishing Colorado a statewide healthcare system through a tax increase. This amendment will receive less support from the republican party members thus receiving large support from the  democratic party members.

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Question: How does gender affect the opinion of male or females regarding the use of marijuana over the age of 21?
Hypothesis: We believe that males will be more accepting of the use of marijuana over the age of 21 rather than females will.

Looking at the mosaic plot our interpretation of men being more acceptant to the use of marijuana over the age of 21 is correct. Women are more opposed than men are in the plot. For all other parts of the graph it is fairly equal up and down.

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We believe political party identification will have an effect on how people feel about an increase in the minimum wage. We believe that democrats will be more likely to favor am increased minimum wage because they tend to have a much more diverse group of supporters, supporters that are often working at or close to minimum wage. Therefore we believe democrats will be more supportive of a minimum wage hike than democrats.

We found our hypothesis to be true. Democrats are far more likely to support an increase in minimum wage.

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Hypothesis: The more educated an individual is, the more likely they will be concerned about climate change.

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Brady Cummings, Joleen Smith, Austin Donnely

Hypothesis:

The more extremely you support either side (Democrat or Conservative) the more likely you are to believe that the votes for the election will not be counted fairly and accurately. If you are more moderate you will likely believe that the votes are being counted fairly.

Plot:

Conclusion:

The plot shows us that our hypothesis was not very correct. You can see that Independents are the group most likely to believe that the votes are not being counted fairly. Democrats and strong democrats are the two groups most likely to believe that the votes are being counted fairly. Conservatives are the group that is least likely to believe the votes are being counted fairly.

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Hypothesis: We compared political party ID to the q11 variable which is what does the US federal government currently spend the most on. Based on this we hypothesized that extremely conservative people would believe that we spend more on food stamps and unemployment insurance while extremely liberal people believe are are spending less on food stamps and unemployment.

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Hypothesis

We hypothesize that as conservative political ideology increases, the support for proposition 106 will decrease. Proposition 106 would make physician assisted death legal among patients with a terminal illness who receive a prognosis of death within six months. We hypothesis this because as support for conservative  ideology increases you’re more likely to be ideologically religious and therefore be less likely to accept medically assisted death.

We have found our hypothesis to be true.  The graph above shows that on the lefthand side, which is associated with being strongly democratic, shows there is approximately a 90 percent support for proposition 106. As we decrease in the political ideology to leaning democratic the support drops to approximately 75 percent, so still strong support for the proposition. Independent political ideology still shows strong support for the proposition with a 70 percent support.  Moving on to the republican stance on the proposition we can see a steady decline in support for the proposition as we move more towards strong republican political ideology.  Leaning Republican has a support of about 62 percent and with strong Republican only having 38 percent support.  So this is by far the widest gap within the republican ideology with a 24 percent change between leaning republican and strong republican.

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Hypothesis: We hypothesize that political ideology has an effect on the way people vote on proposition 106 (assisted death legalization). The more conservative a person identifies as, the more likely they are to oppose proposition 106. The more liberal a person identifies as, the more likely they are to support proposition 106.

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Hypothesis: We predict that if a person is more conservative, then they will have stricter views on euthanasia, causing them to vote no on this issue. This is opposite to the views of democrats, where they have looser views on euthanasia and will vote yes on this issue.

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Hypothesis:
The more extremely you support either liberal or conservatism, the more likely you are to believe that votes are not counted fairly. The more moderate you are, the more likely you are to believe the votes are being counted for fairly.

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Hypothesis: A higher percentage of women voters will vote for Clinton rather than Trump in 2016. Trump has received high amounts of media scrutiny for his history of derogatory, misogynist comments towards women. Hillary Clinton has emphasized the magnitude of female political participation throughout her campaign including within the emblazoned slogan "I'm With Her."
Conclusion: Based on the graph more women said yes to voting Clinton over Trump. Therefore our hypothesis must be accepted.