Why should we use parametric statistical tests when analyzing ordinal data if we could just as easily use nonparametric tests? We do so because _____
a. nonparametric tests are too powerful
b. parametric tests are descriptive statistics
c. nonparametric tests take too long to compute
d. parametric tests are more powerful than nonparametric tests
D
Being more powerful, parametric tests are more likely to detect a relationship between variables if one exists than are nonparametric tests.
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