Imagine we wanted to investigate whether a person’s profession can predict scores on a self-report psychopathy scale. We collected data from people in eight different professions and a group of unemployed people. The eight professions were: bank traders, insurance brokers, health care professionals, business executives, volunteer workers, full-time mums, teachers, construction workers. The outcome was psychopathy score. If we wanted to analyse these data using regression, how many dummy variables would we need?
A. 7
B. It is not possible to analyse these data with regression.
C. 8
D. 9
Answer: C
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