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Running head: Attitudes About Rap by Age

Exercise #6

A Study of R’s Attitude about Rap by R’s Age

Kevan Dunlop

Sowk 300

Tuskegee University
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Bivariate Table

R’s Attitude About Rap By R’s Age

Percent of People who Like Rap by Age

60

50
Percentage That

40
Like's Rap

30

20

10

0
18-29 30-39 40 and older

R’s Age
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Multivariate Table

R’s Attitude About Rap By R’s Age

Percentage of People who Like Rap by Age
controlling for race
90
80
70
Percentage That

60
Like's Rap

50
White
40
Black
30
20
10
0
18-29 30-39 40 and older

R’s Age
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Variables For Exercise #6

Dependent Variable: Rap ‘R’s liking rap’
Independent Variable: AGECAT ‘R’s age’
Control Variable: RACE ‘R’s race’

Bivariate Hypothesis: The age of a person affects their attitude about rap. The older a person is the
less likely they are to enjoy rap music. The younger the person the more likely they are to enjoy rap
music. People in the middle ages are in transition to more adult music with less cursing. Rap was not
around for the older age group in their late teens to early adulthood to enjoy and embrace as they did
the music of their time. Rap has been around for more than two decades for the younger age group of
respondents to check the history of music that is older than them. The middle age of respondents has a
high number of people who like rap because they were in the time era it took off.

Multivariate Hypothesis: The age of a person affects their attitude about rap. There are more Black
rappers so more Black people listen to rap than white people. Rap was not around for the older age
group in their late teens to early adulthood to enjoy and embrace as they did the music of their time so
older Black people enjoy soul music or the music of their day. Younger White people enjoy rap almost
the same as Black people of the same age. Black people that are not fifty enjoy rap because the where a
part of the musical movement. White people enjoy rap music less than black people because they
cannot relate to the content to the same level as the black respondents.

Bivariate Discussion: A higher percentage of people enjoy rap in the age group 18-29 with 52.4 %of
respondents enjoying rap compared to 47.6 % disliking rap. The oldest age group of 40 and older dislike
rap more than they enjoy it with a strong majority of 78.5% not liking rap music. Even with a strong
number of people in age group 18-29 the next ten year span of ages for the respondents showed a huge
decline in the percentage that liked rap with 61.3% not liking rap a 13.7% increase over that ten year age
span of people who already disliked rap. They highest percentage of people who like rap in any age
group is 52.4% in the 18-29 group of respondents while the highest percentage of people who dislike
rap was 78.5 in the 40 and older group of respondents.

Multivariate Discussion: White respondents dislike rap more than Black respondents with the age
group of 40 and older having the highest percentage of people who dislike rap with 82.0%.The highest
percentage of White respondents who like rap is 44.7% in the 18-29 age category compared to 81.6% of
Black respondents in the 18-29 age category who like rap which is a huge 36.9% difference in favor. The
largest decline of Black respondents liking rap is after the age of 39 going into the 40 and older category
with a 31.3% decrease. The largest decline of White respondents liking rap happens during the same
age category as the Black respondents from the 30-39 category to the 40 and older category there was
decrease of 16.3% in favor of rap music.
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R’s Attitude About Rap By R’s Age

R’s Agecat3(IV)

Attitude about
Rap (DV) 18-29 30-39 40 and older

52.4 38.7 21.5

47.6 61.3 78.5

Dislike Rap

R’s Attitude About Rap By R’s Age

Controlling for R’s Race

R’s Race (CV)

White Black

R’s Agecat 3(IV) R’s Agecat 3(IV)

Attitudes about Attitudes about

Rap (DV) 18-29 30-39 40 and older Rap (DV) 18-29 30-39 40 and older

Like Rap Like Rap

44.7 34.3 18.0 81.6 71.8 40.5

55.3 65.7 82.0 18.4 28.2 59.5

Dislike Rap Dislike Rap