Nominal and Ordinal Data

Virginia's listing as the number one men's NCAA basketball team in a poll of sportswriters, with Michigan State listed number two.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

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

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data

_________ data refers to data that is ranked in order.

If the data are labels or categories that are used to define an attribute of an element, the scale we use is...

• Ordinal

• Nominal

• Interval

• Reason

the ratings of a movie ranging from "poor" to "good" to "excellent"

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

If the data contains outcomes that involve a category that must be in order, what type of data is this?

• Continuous

• Ordinal

• Nominal

• Dichotomous

Answer explanation

It is also called discrete data... an example would be like a pain scale

Which of the following are nominal data?

• The gender of a newborn baby

• The length of a snake

• The speed of a participant of a 100 m race

• The total amount of money that Sandy spent in a trip

The cell phone listed as third best on an online electronics review website.

• Nominal

• Ordinal

• Interval

• Ratio

____________ data is data that is categorical.

Which level of measurement provides the least sensitive analysis?

• Nominal data

• Ordinal data

• Interval data