Politics in Art

Nearing the end of the year, we have arrived at our chapter 10 project. This project will

be going over inferences about differences. This is the last of the projects that we need to do in

a group and after this all we need to finish is our final project, and that will consist of all of the

projects we have done throughout the year. We were assigned the third part of chapter 10 and

this is one of the harder chapters. The question itself was about preferences in art, and about

what people of different political stances prefer in their paintings. It asks them if they prefer

paintings where people are fully clothed or paintings where people are not fully clothed. The two

parties in question are liberal and conservative voters. Between the two we had to find out their

differences and there was a different opinion between the two parties.

There was also a decent bit of data to find for this assignment, it has a decent bit of

information for just one single problem. The problems themselves that this chapter speaks

about must be completed in steps more often than not. The steps are there to help organize the

data found and to reach a conclusion that will make sense for the problem itself as well. Once

we had found all of our data it was time to finally begin to take a closer look at all of the

variables that we needed to find.

The first of the variables we needed to find was the null and the alternative hypotheses.

The null hypothesis was H 0: μ1- μ2, and the alternative hypothesis was μ1 > μ2, to find these we

were required to read the last sentence of the problem, “Does this indicate the population

proportion of conservative voters who prefer art with fully clothed people is higher”, which shows

that we want a greater than sign. The next part of this project was to state our level of

significance, the level of significance we found was α = 0.05, and this was given to us by the

problem in the book. The book also gave us n1 = 59, n2 = 62, r 1 = 45, and r 2 = 36. Our next step

was finding the rest of the variables we needed for our main two equations we used later on.
 By using our data from the problem we were assigned we found the sample test

statistic, the sample test statistic came to be 2.22. To find this we used the difference of two

proportions Z equation; By utilizing the sample test statistic we were able to find what our p-

value was. The p-value we came to find was .0132. We found this by using the Z-table and then

subtracting the probability from one since it was a right tailed test. Concluding the first part of

this test we found that we would reject the null hypothesis and adopt the alternative one. This

means that we found the conservative vote for clothed paintings or nude paintings was higher

than the liberal’s vote.

After we had our p-value we had to find our 95% confidence interval, the confidence

interval was actually something that we needed to find for our kind of problem specifically. The

confidence interval that we found was .018 < μ1- μ2< .346 by finding our E value. We used the

equation that was given to us on our paper. This is a range for voters if we change these to

percentages. The population mean for conservative voters would have to be somewhere in this

range.

In conclusion, we can say that more conservative voters voted for clothed art over nude

art when compared to the liberal’s votes. When put into a range the population mean vote would

be between 1.8% and 34.6%. This is a wide range, because we wanted a 95% confidence

interval. We never saw this topic as being political, but in this case the art vote was taken in

different political groups.