For the information that follows, list the highest level of measurement that sho
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Question
For the information that follows, list the highest level of measurement that should be used: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio.
A restaurant manager is developing a clientele profile. Some of the information for the profile are as follows.
a) Gender of diners ________________________________________________
b) Size of groups (number of people) dining together___________________________
c) Time of day the last diner of the evening departs _______________________
d) Age grouping: young, middle age, senior ____________________________
e) Length of time a diner waits for a table _______________________________
Explanation / Answer
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Gender: can be labeled as male or female . This helps categorise data under two labels . This is NOMINAL Scale
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Size of group is expressed in terms of number of people in a group. This can be expressed as This group is half the size of previous group and so on. This implies this is expressed in quantitative scale , where ratio is possible . Thus the scale is RATIO.
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Time of day implies: Morning , day , night...this can be categorised as NOMINAL Scale.
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Age is measured as Young, Middle and Senior: this is ORDINAL since the order is specified in the labeling itself.
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Time is measured as INTERVAL Scale.