What is an ordinal variable? Provide an example.

What will be an ideal response?


Correct Answer:
Ordinal variables have values ordered according to quantity. Numbers assigned reflect the order. Example: 1st, 2nd, 3rd stars in a hockey game.

Education

You might also like to view...

Teachers can use drama techniques to support sociodramatic play by all of the following ways except:

a. taking an indirect role in the play which allows the teacher to withdraw such as pretending to have an "office upstairs" b. using props such as a play phone to communicate indirectly c. providing a prop for children such as a Red Cross armband or a stop and go sign d. taking a central role that allows the teacher to direct the children's dramatic play event

Education

Narrative analysis:

a. Examines the content of a story b. Examines the way in which a story is told c. Is beneficial for collecting information on difficult topics d. All of the above

Education

Sam suffers from loneliness. He has the highest chance of changing his situation, if his causal attribution is

a. Internal and stable b. Internal and unstable c. External and stable d. External and unstable

Education

Which of the following would be used to describe the type of statistical methods used to organize and describe the characteristics of a collection of data?

a. inferential statistics b. descriptive statistics c. sampling methods d. population methods

Education