Have a look at the datafile on the website. Can you find an example of a nominal, an ordinal and a continuous variable?
What will be an ideal response?
Gender is a good example of a nominal variable, as the value labels don’t imply any order. Grade point average is a continuous variable. It has an order (51 is higher than
50), and a fixed distance between the scale points (the difference between 515 and 50 is the same as the difference between 34 and 33, 1%). Most of the variables in this dataset
are ordinal, i.e. they are ordered but the scale points don’t have a fixed distance from one another. An example is the variable ‘attsc1 (School is Boring)’.
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