Please indicate the scale of measurement that best describes the following types
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Question
Please indicate the scale of measurement that best describes the following types of data.
Please explain the reasons for you answer (5 points.)
a. List of the one hundred top films of all time based on box office ticket sales.
b. Dieters reporting the number of calories consumed in the past 24 hours
c. Respondent’s score on an anxiety inventory, with higher scores indicating a greater degree of anxiety.
d. Respondent’s reply to question about religious affiliation
e. Respondent’s reply to a question about the US going to war with North Korea –
replies on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 indicates strong disapproval for of such a war and
5 indicates strong approval for such a war.
Explanation / Answer
a. List of the one hundred top films of all time based on box office ticket sales.
The variable of interest is names though the list is ranked. The data type is ordinal.
b. Dieters reporting the number of calories consumed in the past 24 hours
As the variable of interest is a quantity with no real limit of values, the data type is ordinal.
c. Respondent’s score on an anxiety inventory, with higher scores indicating a greater degree of anxiety.
As the variable of interest is a quantity with no real limit of values, the data type is ordinal.
d. Respondent’s reply to question about religious affiliation
There may be a set of values like 'Religious' 'Not Religious' or 'Muslim', 'Christian' etc. As they are not measurable quantities, the data type is nominal.
e. Respondent’s reply to a question about the US going to war with North Korea – replies on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 indicates strong disapproval for of such a war and 5 indicates strong approval for such a war.
As a scale of 1 to 5 is used, the data type is ordinal.