Question

The following are a list of variables that will almost certainly vary across students in a large undergraduate introductory statistics course.

(a) Favorite beverage
(b) Year of birth
(c) Typing speed
(d) Handedness (e.g., left or right handed)
(e) Age
(f) Occupation
(g) Self-report of Assertiveness
For questions 1a to 1d that follow choose the variable or variables that best represent the level of measurement.
a) Which variables would typically be measured on a nominal scale of measurement?
b) Which variable would likely be measured on an interval, but not a ratio scale?c) Which two variables are most likely to be measured on a ratio scale?d) As typically measured, which variable represents at least an ordinal scale of measurement, but probably not a true interval scale?

Answer 1

Explanation:

a. nominal scales

occupation

Favorite beverage

b. Interval but not ratio.

Typing speed

c. ratio scale.

age

Handedness (e.g., left or right handed)

d. Ordinal scale of measurement but not a true interval scale.

Self-report of Assertiveness

year of birth