City College of San Francisco Two Way Tables Probability Questions

Prompt

Respond to each of the following questions.

Are black IAT participants more likely than whites to strongly agree that law enforcement officers should focus their attention on particular social groups?

Are white IAT participants more likely than multiracial participants to moderately or strongly agree that law enforcement officers should focus their attention on particular social groups?

Context
Here is a review of the information from the previous page.
We randomly selected 1,200 participants form the 2020 Race IAT. Below is the two-way
table for the sample with the row variable Race and the column variable Crime-Focus.
Here is a description of each variable.
Race: IAT participants’ self-reported race.
Crime-Focus: IAT participants response to the statement, “Law enforcement officers
should pay particular attention to those social groups more heavily involved in crime, even if
this means focusing on members of particular ethnic groups.”
Race IAT: Race vs Crime-Focus
Strongly Moderately Slightly
Slightly Moderately Strongly
Neutral
Disagree Disagree Disagree
Agree
Agree
Agree
Row
Totals
Amer
Indian/
Alaskan
Native
3
1
1
0
1
0
0
6
East Asian
17
6
5
1
3
0
0
32
South
Asian
16
4
1
1
2
0
1
25
Native
Hawaiian/
Pacific
Islander
3
0
1
1
0
0
0
5
Black/
African
Am
51
15
7
11
0
1
2
87
White
400
180
72
83
144
41
21
941
Other/
Unknown
23
7
4
4
4
5
1
48
Multiracial
34
6
3
7
3
1
2
56
Prompt
Respond to each of the following questions. Be sure to number your responses, show
your work, and write your answers in context as we did on the previous page.
1. Are black IAT participants more likely than whites to strongly agree that law
enforcement officers should focus their attention on particular social groups?
2. Are white IAT participants more likely than multiracial participants to
moderately or strongly agree that law enforcement officers should focus their
attention on particular social groups?