I looked at the relationship between eleven predictors and the cleanliness of one's home as assessed by the GSS interviewer (sample size = 1,041):
OLS standardized regression coefficients
Age .15*
Male v female .02
Black v white -.12
Other v white .01
Size of city .00
South v North .00
Number of children -.04
Education .10*
IQ .08*
Church attendance .13*
Conservatism .06*
*statistically significant
The following predicts household cleanliness: being older, being more educated, higher intelligence, more frequent church attendance, and being more conservative poltically. The strongest significant predictor is age, while conservatism is the weakest.
You might see something different, but the image that emerges here is an establishment person--smart, educated, religious, conservative, and mature.
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Too bad this is self-report. The female-male difference is tiny, when we all know women are much more sensitive to small amounts of dirt. ;)
ReplyDeleteHm, just to make sure. What is the dependent variable used for your analysis ? "HUCLEAN" ?
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