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Here are the tests I ran using the program minitab:

—————   5/17/2012 11:42:18 AM   ———————————————————— 

Welcome to Minitab, press F1 for help.
 
Tally for Discrete Variables: hand, political scale 

                        political
hand  Count  Percent        scale  Count  Percent
   l     11    20.37            1      7    12.96
   r     43    79.63            2     12    22.22
  N=     54                     3     26    48.15
                                4      6    11.11
                                5      3     5.56
                               N=     54

 
Tabulated statistics: hand, political scale 

Rows: hand   Columns: political scale

           1       2       3      4      5     All

l          2       2       7      0      0      11
       1.426   2.444   5.296  1.222  0.611  11.000

r          5      10      19      6      3      43
       5.574   9.556  20.704  4.778  2.389  43.000

All        7      12      26      6      3      54
       7.000  12.000  26.000  6.000  3.000  54.000

Cell Contents:      Count
                    Expected count

Pearson Chi-Square = 3.382, DF = 4
Likelihood Ratio Chi-Square = 5.115, DF = 4

* WARNING * 1 cells with expected counts less than 1
* WARNING * Chi-Square approximation probably invalid

* NOTE * 6 cells with expected counts less than 5

 
Tabulated statistics: hand, new scale 

Rows: hand   Columns: new scale

           1      2     3    All

l          4      7     0     11
        3.87   5.30  1.83  11.00

r         15     19     9     43
       15.13  20.70  7.17  43.00

All       19     26     9     54
       19.00  26.00  9.00  54.00

Cell Contents:      Count
                    Expected count

Pearson Chi-Square = 2.996, DF = 2, P-Value = 0.224
Likelihood Ratio Chi-Square = 4.747, DF = 2, P-Value = 0.093

* NOTE * 2 cells with expected counts less than 5

 

Comments (5) . 05 Jan 2007 . 10:37

Here are two pie charts visualizing the data:

Note, there is not a pie chart included showing the political preference proportions for left handed people. This is because all of the left handed people that responded, they picked liberal when asked political preference.