:Scatterplot III: States Percent of Poor Families and Gallons of Alcohol Consumed Per PersonThe scatterplot supports the exact opposite of our theory and hypothesis. The correlation was a weak negative, while the probability was extremely low, but not in our favor. The results were statistically significant, leading us to believe that perhaps poor families are too poor to even purchase alcohol, and perhaps have found cheaper ways to spend their time.After completing our research, we discovered that alcohol is a major problem in the United States. Many people can not admit the severity of the problem, including students, parents, and society as a whole. We came to this conclusion due to the fact that alcohol was not used as a variable or measure in hardly any databases or surveys. We wish that we could have tested all of our theories using alcohol instead of marijuana because we believe they would have resulted in higher correlations. Also, we would have liked to have been able to control all of the correlations for high school and college age students, because we feel that these particular groups of people are most harmed by the effects of alcohol consumption. While we did discover that males are more likely to do drugs than females, marijuana smokers tend to have more sex partners, unemployed people smoke marijuana more than employed people, and poor people are more acceptable of the legalization of marijuana, we still feel that these ideas would have been more significant if alcohol was a variable. Another problem we had with the study was that we questioned who the respondents were in the surveys. We realize that older Americans are greatly against the legalization of marijuana and may not have answered questions regarding its legalization as would teenagers or people in their twenties. Older Americans often do not see alcohol as such a problem because they are over the legal drinking age and do not binge drink as often.We...
