Question

1.Which of the following is NOT an example of ordinal data?

A)Seat number in a concert venue (G25, J13, K28 etc.)

B)Likert-responses to a survey question (Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree etc.)

C)Months of year (January, February, March etc.)

D)Ranks of military personnel (General, Colonel, Major, Captain etc.)

E)Sizes of polo shirts (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large etc.)

2. You would use a ________histogram__________ to summarize the length of time it takes a sample of 150 individuals to complete a particular questionnaire since it is a graphical summary of ____nominal or ratio________ data?

Answer 1

Question (1)

Ordinal data is the categorical data which is placed in some order or on a scale of low to high or high to low

Here Option A Seat number does not have any order, Hence Option A is not ordinal data

All the other options are data ehoch is ordered on a scale of low to high or high to low

So Answer is Option A

Question (2)

Here the lenght of time it takes a sample of 150 individuals to complete a Questionnaire is Quantitatvie data and not Qualitative data, We either use Interval or Ratio data for Qunatitative data and Nominal or Ordinal data for Qualitative data

And here since we are looking at the the lenght of time, it can't be negative. Hecne we have to use Ratio data

ANd Histogram is the best graphical method to summarize this data

So Answer is

You would use a Histogram to summarize the length of time it takes a sample of 150 individuals to complete a particular questionnaire since it is a graphical summary of ratio data