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Education

        This was one of the few correlations that went against commonly held belief. Generally, society

acknowledges that the more time a person spends in a learning institution, the less likely they will be

uninformed on health issues. The correlated demographics consisted of Hispanic males

(r = 0.091968, r = 0.21702), black males (r = 0.18998, r = 0.3707), and white males

(r = 0.1392, r = 0.17091) 25 years and older who had attained at least a high school diploma. Compare

these statistics to males also 25 and older with at least a graduate degree and the correlations all decrease

among Hispanics (r = -0.2018, r = -0.2084), blacks (r = -0.2317, r = -0.2397) and whites

(r = -0.25948, r = -0.25354). The correlation coefficients between the men with varying levels of education

and HIV/AIDS all exhibited a general trend. Among all the correlations, more schooling was connected with

a more negative correlation with HIV/AIDS. The only exception was Hispanic females when correlated

with HIV. This was a surprising development because most people would assume that with more education,

a person will know more about how to deal with health issues. Even more surprising was the fact that for

some reason only Hispanic women did not follow the general trend. The reason for this anomaly is difficult

to pinpoint, but one possibility could be that in Hispanic culture women are subservient to their husbands

regardless of their level of education. More research needs to be done to get a better idea of why Hispanic

women did not correlate the same way with HIV.