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Worksheets01 Data Types and Levels of Measurement
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 10hrs 0mins
Hair color of girls on the high school tennis team is at the ______________ level of measurement
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Numbers on the shirts of a soccer team is at the ______________ level of measurement
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Ages of students in a statistics class is at the ______________ level of measurement.
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Temperature settings of 22 selected refrigerators (in Fahrenheit) are at the ______________ level of measurement.
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A data set that consists of the number of milligrams of tar in 28 cigarettes is at the ______________ level of measurement.
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The number of pages in your Statistics book is a data point at the _____________ level of measurement
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A column in a spreadsheet holds the marriage status of the faculty at the local community college. This column would be at the _____________ level of measurement.
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Social security numbers are at the ____________________ level of measurement.
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The ratings of a movie on a review site, ranging from "poor" to "good" to "excellent" would be at the ______________ level of measurement
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The final grades (A, B, C, D, or F) for students in a chemistry class would be at the ______________ level of measurement
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A database holds the annual salaries for all teachers in Utah. This data is at the _____________ level of measurement.
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A list of all of the ZIP codes for Chicago is at the _______________ level of measurement
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The nationalities listed in a recent survey of faculty members (English, German, etc.) are at the ______________ level of measurement.
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The amount of fat (in grams) in 44 cookies is data at the _______________ level of measurement.
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The number of cars sold by a car dealership each month is data at the ______________ level of measurement.
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At this level, data can be ranked, but you do not have any information about how much difference exists between ranks.
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Data from a Likert Scale
[for eample, strongly agree (1) to strongly disagree (7) ] is at the ______________ level of measurement.
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Ms. Martha puts her students' scores in order from the person who scored the least to the person who scored the most on her test of verbal reasoning.
If you had this ranking, but not the scores themselves, your information is at the ______________ level of measurement.
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Ten rats run a maze and the researcher records how they compared with each other, e.g. the slowest rat got a score of 1 and the fastest got a score of 10
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At this level, you can talk about how much greater than or less than each other two data points are, and negative numbers are allowed
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Temperature in degrees centigrade (Celsius) is at the ______________ level of measurement.
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In golf, negative scores are not only allowed, but are good! These scores would be at the ______________ level of measurement.
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At this level, all basic operations (add, subtract, multiply and divide) are allowed, and has an inherent zero meaning you cannot have negative values.
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Reaction times in milliseconds are measured for two groups of people, one well-rested and one sleep-deprived. This data is at the ____________________ level of measurement.
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A shop owner records information about his customers.
The distance they traveled to get to the shop is _____ data
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A shop owner records information about his customers.
The average amount of money spent is _____ data
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Review: A teacher asks everyone in his Year 7 group for their shoe size. The year 7 group is his defined Field of Study.
This is a __________________ of the Year 7 group.
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The type of programming on each radio station in your city (e.g., 93.7 KSKS play Country, Y101.1 plays Pop) is at the ______________ level of measurement.
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The number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week
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The temperatures in cities throughout the country that are listed in most newspapers are at the ______________ level of measurement.
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Your cell phone is listed as third best on an online electronics review website. This data point is at the ______________ level of measurement
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Virginia is listed as the number one men's NCAA basketball team in a poll of sportswriters, with Michigan State listed number two. These data points are at the ______________ level of measurement.
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A data set consists of the amounts of each tip left at a restaurant during a 3-hour period. This set is at the _______________ level of measurement.
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Review: A/an ____________________ is a type of observation or survey where the sample size is less than the population size.
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sampling
experiment
simulation
These levels of measurement can be qualitative (check all that apply.)
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These levels of measurement can be quantitative (check all that apply.)
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