Basis for a choice of a political party as a cause for political preferences of students

The article deals with the statistical dependence of interval variables-estimates (attitudes to voting results, satisfaction with the work of state bodies, the respondents’ attitudes to political parties, political leaders and other parameters) on the nominal parameter “Basis for Choice of a Political Party”, which is represented by 9 nominal responses, characterized the respondent’s attitude to the political organization. There are also 13 dependent (interval) parameters, characterized respondents’ interest in politics, estimations of the work of political and state leaders, attitude to the various significant political events in Russia and others analyzed with a new version of the authorial method. The method applied to analyze cause and effect relation in parallel for any interval and nominal variables, and as a result, it became possible to speak about the dependence of an interval parameter on a multivalued nominal variable, and to select the relation necessary in strength, based only on numerical values.