WorksheetsData Types and Levels of Measurements
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 16mins
(a) 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
(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
Which level of measurement does not provide objective information about the differences between each data point?
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.
Which of the following applies to ordinal data?
Data is gathered from any non-standardised scale the researcher has constructed themselves.
Data is gathered from a standardised scale.
There are equal intervals between each data point.
There may not be equal intervals between each data point.
Which of the following applies to interval data?
Data is gathered from any non-standardised scale the researcher has constructed themselves.
Data is gathered from a standardised scale.
There are equal intervals between each data point.
There may not be equal intervals between each data point.
Which level of measurement allows for the most sensitive analysis?
Nominal data
Ordinal data
Interval data
Which level of measurement obtains a numerical result for each participant that enables researchers to objectively analyse differences in results?
Nominal data
Ordinal data
Interval data
