ABSTRACT

But suppose you want to know more. Perhaps you want to find out whether different aspects of news media use are related to knowledge about or interest in current events or whether certain motivations result in more or varied types of media use. Maybe you want to control for any possible influence of factors such as education or partisanship in testing those relationships. By understanding the varied inferential statistics available for evaluating relationships and testing hypotheses, you can better answer these sorts of questions.