Beheading With Sword
Statistical Tests of Percent Differences Among Execution Actors
Beheading With Sword: Among Executioners, fully 21% were OK with executions by beheading the condemned with a sword. Among Hard Abstract Supporters, only 5% were OK with such executions. Among Soft Abstract Supporters, only 3% were OK with this method of execution. The table below shows that, according to the Chi-Square test, these differences are statistically significant. The Sig. value is less than .05. With a Phi coefficient of .27 and an Eta Squared of .06, the effect size of approving this method of execution exerts less than a medium effect but more than a small effect on execution roles (intended actions).
When Soft Abstract Supporters and Hard Abstract Supporters were analyzed separately using the Chi-Square test with correction for continuity (2 X 2 table), the difference between them was not statistically significant. With a Phi coefficient of .05 and an Eta Squared of .003, the effect size of approving this method of execution exerts slightly less than a small effect on execution roles (intended actions).