Question

Naomi is studying the effect of popularity on academic success for her research methods project. To do this, she has elementary school students report how popular each member of their class is. She then uses this information to rank the students on popularity (e.g., John is the most popular, Vanessa is the second-most popular). Which of the following best describes this variable?a) An ordinal scale of measurement b) A categorical measurement c) A self-report measurement d) An interval scale of measurement

Answer 1

a) An ordinal scale of measurement

Step-by-step explanation:

Naomi is doing a research based study on the effect of popularity on academic success. To help her out she has some elementary school students and these students will report on how popular each member in their class is.

So she uses these information from the students and she uses an ordinal scale of measurement to rank the students according to their popularity in the class.

Ordinal scale is a second level for measurement which reports the ordering and ranking of the information without actually considering the variation between the data or the information.