Using the 2018 GSS, we regressed the number of hours of television watched on the average day on three variables: years of education, age, and marital status. Marital status is a dummy variables with 1 = married. We get the following results for the unstandardized regression coefficients: TVhours = 3.38 - .13Educ + .03Age - .52Married. According to this equation,
A) there is no association between age and television viewing.
B) younger people watch more hours of television, on average, than older people.
C) married people watch fewer hours of television, on average, than unmarried people.
D) age is more strongly associated with hours of television viewing than marital status.

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The coefficient for the dummy variable Married is negative (-0.52) which means that on average, married people watch 0.52 hours of television less than unmarried people. The coefficient for Age is positive (0.03) but relatively small compared to the coefficient for Married (-0.52), so we cannot conclude that age is more strongly associated with hours of television viewing than marital status.

Using the 2018 GSS, We Regressed the Number of Hours