Question

A study of Kickstarter projects showed that 54.2% were successful,that is, achieved its goal and raised at

least the targeted goal

amount. In an effort to identify network dynamics that influences

success, projects were subdivided into projects of owners who had

backed other projects before, during or after creating their project

(owners with backing history) and projects of owners without backing

history. The results are as follows:

Project Owner’s Backing

History

Project Outcome

Backing

History

No Backing

History Total

Successful 17,667 19,202 36,869

Not successful 10,921 20,267 31,188

Total 28,588 39,469 68,057

Source: Data extracted from Zvilichovsky et al., “Playing Both

Sides of the Market: Success and Reciprocity on Crowdfunding

Platforms,” bit.ly/OoyhqZ.

a. Construct contingency tables based on total percentages, row

percentages, and column percentages.

A study of Kickstarter projects showed that 54.2% were successful,that is