Exercise

The geography of happiness

In addition to information regarding their opinions on policy issues, GSS survey respondents also provided the region of the United States in which they live. With this in hand, you can explore the question:

Does this dataset provide evidence of an association between happiness and geography?

Instructions

100 XP

Using gss2016,construct a bar plot of proportions capturing the relationship between region and happy. Plots like this are easier to read when the variable with the fewer number of levels is mapped to fill.
Use chisq_stat() to compute the observed chi-squared statistic associated with this bar plot and save it as chi_obs.