Data Types and Levels of Measurements

____________ data is data that is categorical.

Which level of measurement would involve participants being assigned labels to put them into categories?

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data

Which level of measurement provides the least sensitive analysis?

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data

Which level of measurement does not provide a numerical result for each participant.

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data

A researcher asks participants to complete a personality test and, based on their results, labels participants as either introverted or extraverted. What level of measurement did they obtain?

• Nominal data

• Interval data

• Ordinal data

Which of the following are levels of measurement?

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

_________ data refers to data that is ranked in order.

A researcher asks participants to complete a happiness rating scale where participate rate how happy they feel on a scale of 1-10. What level of measurement did they obtain?

• Nominal data

• Interval data

• Ordinal data

"Differences in intervals might not be of equal size" applies to which level of measurement?

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data

Which level of measurement does not provide objective information about the differences between each data point?

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data