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Seethe effect of religi;rity;, militancy, holding constanteducation,simply by reading down the columns, ani th" of educa_ tron on militancy, holding constantreligiosity, simply "aoie" "ff"ct by'readinfacross the rows. Cross-Tabulations 19 WHAT THISCHAPTERHAS SHOWN In this chapter,we haveseenan initial ideaformulatedinto a researchproblem,an appropriate samplechosen,a surveyconducted,and a set of variablescreatedand combined into scalesto representthe conceptsof interestto the researcher. This is the most difficult conceptin the chaptet and one you shouldmake sureyou completelyunderstand.