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Attitude towards statistics: Study with students of the military officers training schools of the universidad de las fuerzas armadas espe

Abstract:

The paper presents a descriptive research, whose objective is to analyze the influence that exists between five dimensional factors that have been studied in the attitude scale towards statistics, designed and validated by Auzmendi (1992), based on the answers given to the items for a sample of 219 students of military officer training schools. The main results indicate: in the exploratory analysis the average age of the interviewees is 21.3 years, 88.6% are men and 11.4% are women. The highest reliability in the factors occurs in Anxiety (0.896) and the lowest in Fun (0.740); The factor analysis extracts five dimensional factors that explain 66.362% of the total variance of the data considering its acceptance. It is concluded that the appropriate learning techniques will motivate the study of the subject and its application in the labor field.