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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The type of programming on each radio station in your city (e.g., 93.7 KSKS play Country, Y101.1 plays Pop)
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
The number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Ethnic group categories of people in a neighborhood.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Your friend's score on an intelligence test
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
The temperatures in cities throughout the country that are listed in most newspapers.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
The number of votes received by the Republican and Democratic candidates for congress in your district in the last election
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
The cell phone listed as third best on an online electronics review website.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
The birth weights of babies who were born at Wilshire General Hospital last week.
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Virginia's listing as the number one men's NCAA basketball team in a poll of sportswriters, with Michigan State listed number two.
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Ordinal
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Ratio
Yellow walls in your office and white walls in your boss's office.
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Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Which level of measurement would involve participants being assigned labels to put them into categories?
Nominal data
Ordinal data
Interval data
(a) data is data that is categorical.
Which level of measurement provides the least sensitive analysis?
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
(a) 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
(a) data is data which is measured along a pre-existing, standardised scale with units of equal intervals
Which of the following are examples of interval data?
Position in a 100m race as identified by who came first, second and third
Time in seconds it takes to complete a 100m race
Length in cm
The number of people classified as having an internal locus of control and the number of people classified as having an external locus of control.
