Ordinal Level Scales

1. The researchers analyzed the data they collected as though it were at what level of measurement?- The correct answer is Interval/ratio.

b. Ordinal: This is a measurement that represent the order of a particular stat. A good example of this would the placement in a contest, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

Above is an example or both primary and secondary data which is all quantitative being based on proven facts and subject to continual improvement.

Answer: The variable is nominal because the question is asking for what type of diabetes a person has and is put into 3 categories.

A nominal variable is qualitative, or word orientated, distinct, mutually exclusive, completely exhaustive, and cannot be ordered (Walker, 2009).  Meaning, the variable is a descriptive word, i.e. color, can be distinguished from each other, its value coincides with only the category in which it was designed, has a designated category for each characteristic, and has no specific order (Walker, 2009).  A qualitative variable is strictly descriptive.  Whereas, a quantitative variable is numeric.  Therefore, the color of law enforcement officers’ uniforms is considered a nominal variable.

Statistics regarding health and illness levels are generated by three main groups. These groups are:

“1. The researchers analyzed the data they collected as though it were at what level of measurement? (Your choices are: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval/ratio, or Experimental)”

Determine which level of measurement— nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio—is used in the following examples.

2. An example of a interval scale variable is the make of a car. FALSE

Typically there are four different levels of measurements for variables. These are nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. Nominal measurement is a numerical value. An example in the High School Longitudinal Study database used are the year’s math teacher has taught high school math. Ordinal measurement are the features that can be categorized. An example of this would be if you’re ranked the highest education of the parents. An ranking example is reflected below chart

Dependent Variables: Level and intensity of pain, ability to express pain on a scale, pharmacological solutions to pain

The scale that was used to measure the children’s performance when they found a firearm was the interval scale. The interval scale was measured zero to three. Level three being the highest form that meets the criteria and level 0 being the lowest form that meets criteria. Level zero is when the child handles a firearm with regardless of subsequent responses. Level one is when the child does not handle the firearm but does not leave the area or tell an adult. Level two the child does not handle the firearm and leaves the area but does not tell an adult. Level 2.5 the child does not touch the gun, leaves the area, and tells an adult, but does not indicate an appropriate adult to tell. Level three the child does not handle the firearm, leaves

The first control variable, people the respondent knows suicide over lifetime, was measured as a nominal variable in the data set, but has a quantitative type of categories, ranging from 0 to 10, as well as 20, 21,50, 70, 95: 1 or more, number unknown, with missing values: 98 Don’t know, 99. No answer. I recoded this variable into a nominal variable with three categories: 0. None, 1. Few and 2. More.

As school kept going I kept my routine of practice schedule every day from Monday through Friday and then I would take my instrument home every weekend. It was a daily struggle for myself because I had to practice and become better in my skills than yesterday. I had to learn my major scales but GMEA (Georgia Music Educators Association) added more to play to the scales I already knew. It felt like I was learning them all over again. They added more notes than the scales I learned in Middle School; that meant I had to play notes that were in a higher range than the ones I was playing. I finally learned all of my scales by early October. But all the hours spent learning them was a torture to my brain. Playing those 9 scales over and over with

This variable is nominal because the choices do not have a ranking order. My independent variable is feelings about the Bible which also came from the GSS dataset. Feelings about the Bible is measured by, Word of God, Inspired Word, Book of Fables or Other. The participants were asked, “Which of these statements comes closest to describing your feelings about the Bible” and they could pick from one of three choices which were, “The bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally word for word (1), The bible is the inspired word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally (2), word for word and The bible is an ancient book of fables, legends, history and moral precepts recorded by men (3).” Feelings about the Bible is an ordinal variable because there is a ranking order, but the distance between each is not known. I used Correlations to test my hypotheses and these tests were done using SPSS 2008.