Question

For each of the following, indicate whether the data is measured on a nominal (N), ordinal (O), interval (I), or ratio (R) scale.

a) amount of rain that falls in Florida, in August

b) percentage of fat (up to 2 decimals) in your preferred ice-cream

c) number of children in each daycare room

d) languages spoken by CUNY’s students

e) weight of men who attended Weight Watchers last week

f) calendar year of your birth

g) how often the toddlers of a daycare use the restroom in a day

h) Fahrenheit temperatures of QC’s college dorms

i) number of pages in the NYC telephone book

j) strength categories of hurricanes (1, 2, …, 5)

k) scores on the GRE Exam (range is from 200 to 800)

l) number of defective syringes in batches of 500 made by Safety Co.

m) ethnicity of patients in a physician’s office

n) rating scale of 1 to 5, representing strongly dislike, dislike, neutral, like, strongly like

Answer 1