POLS 207 9TH Edition Lecture 4 Outline of Last Lecture II Texas compared to US A Regulations and rules III Education IV Government in Texas Outline of Current Lecture V Comparing states and Communities B Physical demographic C Wealth D Social problem E Coping with social problems VI Map explanations VII Innocence project VIII Chapter 2 IX Scatter plots and correlations Current Lecture Comparing states and communities o Physical and demographic Size and pop Percentage metro o Wealth High income o Social problem Murder Unemployment Educating children o Coping with social problems Death penalty Cost of public education People don t trust government so they use private schools for education 20 24 thousand Are there differences between states o Yes Is Texas a typical state These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o No big in pop people and area size Know Maps for this chapter Per capita income in 2010 o Highest Alaska Washington Utah north Dakota Virginia new york Delaware Massachusetts Vermont Colorado new jersey Populations in 2010 o Highest Texas California Florida new york Metropolitan population 2010 o California Hawaii Nevada Arizona new york Florida north east Non citizen population not citizens to state not illegal immigration o California is highest 15 20 Per capita income 2012 o Highest Washington California Colorado Utah new york Virginia Vermont Delaware new jersey Massachusetts Unemployment rate 2012 o Highest California Nevada Virginia N S Carolina Georgia Life expectancy 2011 o Highest California Arizona Colorado Utah new york mass Rhode island o Lower life expectancy because of lower health care Michigan N S Dakota Women tend to live longer because they are more willing to ask for help tend to be more social have social connections and having people to talk to Men exhibit and engage in risky behavior lower life expectancy Married people live longer than single because they have a social connection interaction People with pets live longer Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world Murders per 100 00 pop 2011 o New Mexico Louisiana Mississippi south Carolina Poverty 2010 o South has higher poverty than north and Mississippi Louisiana have highest in country Percentage of high school completion o The south has lower percentage than north Texas is in lowest group Property crimes 2010 o Texas Arizona Washington Louisiana Florida Georgia Arkansas Tennessee Alabama Texas has the highest executions since 1976 with 474 executions o Our execution rates are almost 400 times more than any other state o Error rates for executions percentages is 2 5 Innocence project law school students from high end schools are taking old cases and presenting new evidence defending the accused and found out that the people who were put in jail for the crime turned out innocent Death penalty costs more than life in prison because all the court cases are drug out and can have appeals all the way until the Supreme court Execution rate is higher in Oklahoma but Texas kills more people because we have more population Infant mortality per 1000 live births 2007 o Highest Oklahoma bible belt Arkansas and Florida 7 9 tax in Texas we are in the lowest group of taxation rates Chapter 2 are some patterns evidence of cause and effect Are there explanations for patterns in Texas Scatterplot analysis compare Texas to other states Correlations o Technique for expressing relationships in quantitive terms o Degree of inherent association which exists between 2 variables occurring simultaneously in the same universe Abraham N Franzblau