RESEARCH

It is called scales of measurement, tell you how precisely variables are recorded

• Scale

• Data

• Research process

• Level of Measurement

It is the data that can only be categorized

• ordinal

• nominal

• ratio

• interval

The data that can be categorized, ranked, and evenly spaced

• nominal

• ratio

• interval

• ordinal

The data that can be categorized, ranked, evenly spaced, and has a natural zero.

• ratio

• nominal

• interval

• ordinal

A researcher collects demographic data from her participants. She asks participants for their city of birth.

Which level of measurement is this?

• nominal

• ordinal

• ratio

• interval

She then asks participants to report the number of hours they spent exercising in the past week. Which level of measurement is this?

• ordinal

• interval

• ratio

• nominal

The researcher collects data on anxiety using the Beck Anxiety Scale. In this scale, scores range from 0-44, but a score of zero simply means low anxiety rather than a total lack of anxiety. Which level of measurement is this?

• ratio

• nominal

• interval

• ordinal

The researcher asks participants to select their level of activity in general from the following: sedentary, light physical activity, moderate physical activity, or vigorous physical activity. Which level of measurement is this?

• nominal

• ratio

• interval

• ordinal