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It is extremely important far is clearly defined the variables in a study because this helps to determine the type of analyst that can be performed on the data for example if a researcher wanted to describe people based on Social Security number what level of measurement what is a variable Social Security number be Now suppose the restroom felt that certain people who live further east receive higher numbers does the level of measurement of the variable change if so how

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Answer: b) Yes, it changes to ordinalBecause by assigning higher group identifiers to countries with higher population, you're adding another category of data whose function is to order and organize country according to population. Therefore, categorical with numerical ranking.

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