Before completing the Tasks, please work through each of the sub-pages for Tutorial 5 as these will help complete the task below.

For the task below we will be using the following dataset:

Skoczylis, Joshua, 2021, "Extremism, Life Experiences and the Internet", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ICTI8T, Harvard Dataverse, Version 3.

Use a Reliability Analysis to create a Social Media Score. In the dataset you should find a set of variables that measures, towards the end measures online activity by Social Media (e.g. Facebook_Write).

Now Answer the following Questions:

• Are you able to combined all of these variables into one reliable Social Media Score?

• Are there any specific variables that need to be excluded? 

• With a fellow student discuss the difference between saving them as a Sum or Means score. 

Now that you have created a new variable, standardise the score. 

Finally, answer the following question:

• Is there a difference in Social Media usage between men and women?

Using the same variables as above, use a EFA to create new Social Media variable(s). Answer the following:

• How many factors are being suggested? 

• Is it meaningful to combined them into 2 factors only?

• Given the results, should you combined them into variable? 

• Which variables would you remove from your final score and why?