As a criminologist, you are interested in the factors related tojuvenile offending. You think that time spent studying influencesdelinquent behavior. In a group of 21 high school students, youcollect information about the number of times a juvenile has brokencurfew this month and how much time they spend studying this month.You break the sample into three groups, those who spend no timestudying, those who spend less than 1 hour per day, and those whospend more than 1 hour per day).
a) What is the independent variable?
b) What is the dependent variable?
c) What is the null hypothesis?
d) What is the research hypothesis?
e) Interpret the results.
| No Time | Less Than 1 Hour | More Than 1 Hour |
| 10 | 5 | 7 |
| 10 | 1 | 5 |
| 30 | 4 | 1 |
| 10 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 10 | 5 |
| 15 | 5 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 |
