Identify the level of measurement for the following variables from 2010 General Social Survey data: sex, race, highest educational degree earned, hours worked per week, and age at first marriage.
What will be an ideal response?
Sex = nominal; Race = nominal; highest educational degree = ordinal; hours worked per week = interval-ratio; age at first marriage = interval-ratio.
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a. was a result of a quest for new world markets for American goods. b. sometimes made use of U.S. armed forces to guarantee access to exploitable cheap labor, raw materials, and markets in the Third World. c. both a and b. d. neither a nor b.
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