BATAAN PENINSULA STATE UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL
City of Balanga 2100 Bataan
PHILIPPINES

Chi-Square

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

In EME 002 - Statistical Methods

JAM AIGELLE M. BORJA

June 2020
 STUDENTS’ RELIGION PREDICTS THEIR POSITION ON TERROR BILL

AT SITIO ININGLES HIGH SCHOOL S.Y. 2019-2020

INTRODUCTION

Due to last year’s surge in Marawi City caused by suicide bombing in the southern region
and the terror brought by conflict long decade conflict between the government and communist
and Islamic insurgence, the government come up of the Terror bill or also known as Anti-terrorism
Act and the president also marked it as urgent. It is an act that amends the Human Security Act of
2007. According to (VENZON, 2020) in a news article, the act expands the definition of terrorism
to include acts intended to cause "death or serious bodily injury to any person," "extensive damage
and destruction" to a government facility, private property or critical infrastructure and when the
purpose of those acts is to "intimidate [the] general public," "create an atmosphere or message of
fear," or "seriously destabilize or destroy the fundamental political, economic and social structures
of the country." Those found guilty face life sentences without the chance of parole. The public
were alarmed and triggered by the general definitions stated and questioned the government how
to classify terrorist.

Moreover, a news article written by (Hermoso, 2020) in Manila Bulletin revealed that
Catholic groups opposed the terror bill. Hemoso also quote that “We cannot let this happen. This
is not only intolerable, this is inhuman, unjust, and unlawful. The bill can further reinforce tyranny
and totalitarianism,” warned Caritas Philippines national director Kidapawan Bishop Jose Colin
Bagaforo, in a Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines News post. This revealed that some
religious groups stand with the opposition to the trending bill.

The 1987 Philippine constitution, the state and the church must be separated from one
another. However, churches’ expression on its opinion about politics and state policies rises
conflict caused by humanitarian view and religious aspect. The catholic church opposes the
Reproductive Health Law and Duterte’s way of fighting war on drugs. The church believed that it
violates the right to live of people. (Thompson, 2018) presents arguments about religion prevents
social change and its opposite. According to him, Malinowski and Parsons, functionalist thinkers,
both argued that religion prevents social change to prevent threatening existing social order by
helping people cope with disruptive events. However, he also cited that Islamic groups were very
active in using social media to oppose the political injustices in countries such as Tunisia and
Egypt between 2010-2014.

With these opposing stands, the researcher wanted to know if there is a significant
relationship between the religion and students’ position on anti-terrorism bill at Sitio Iningles High
School S.Y. 2019-2020. The number of samples is 30 and the sample technique used was simple
random sampling. Data from the respondents were collected through online medium using Google
Forms and were analyzed using SPSS v. 21. Through the use of Pearson Chisquare, it enabled to
measure if there is significant relationship between the two variables.

I. Statement of the Hypothesis

Ho : There is no significant relationship between the religion and students’

position to terror bill.

Ha : There is significant relationship between the religion and students’ position

to terror bill.

II. Test Statistics

Since both variables are nominal data and the goal of the study is to know if there
is significant relationship between religion and students’ position to terror bill of grade
10 students, the most appropriate test statistics is Chi-Square.

III. Level of Significance

Alpha level or level of significance is set to 0.05 thus the confidence level is 0.95.
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IV. Table of Probability value and Computed value

Table 1

Probability Values and Decision on the Significant Relationship between religion the
students’ position on Terror Bill

p- Decision
Indicator Variable 𝝌𝟐 Interpretation
value on Ho
Sex
Students’ Fail to
Scores 4.420 0.620 Not significant
Position to Reject Ho
Terror Bill.
At 0.05 Level of Significance
 V. Interpretation

Based on the table above, there is no enough evidence to prove that there is
significant relationship between the sex and preferred area in mathematics of grade 10
students at MNHS- Batangas II with p- value of 0.620 under 0.05 level of significance.

The result of the current study contradicts the following claims of Karl Thompson
where he argued that religion plays a role whether the religion prevents or support
social change. Thus, the researcher can’t claim that religion predicts the students’
position on Terror Bill

Bibliography

Hermoso, C. (2020). Catholic church groups oppose anti-terrorism bill. Manila: Manila Bulletin.

Thompson, K. (2018, August 9). ReviseSociology. Retrieved from revisesosciology.com:

https://revisesociology.com/2018/08/09/religion-and-social-change/

VENZON, C. (2020). The Philippines' Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020: Five things to know. Nikkei
Asian Review.
 Appendix

Tabular Output from SPSS

Value Label
Raw Data