A poll asked people in a certain country. \"Thinking about politics today, would

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A poll asked people in a certain country. "Thinking about politics today, would you say that you support or oppose higher taxes? The choices were "Support or "Oppose. "What kind of variable is the response? Choose the correct answer below. Quantitative variable Categorical variable The response is not a variable. A candidate for office claims that "there is a correlation between television watching and crime." Criticize this statement on statistical grounds. Choose the correct answer below A. There may be a lurking variable, like playing video games, that stands behind a relationship and determines it by simultaneously affecting the other two variables. B. There may be a high correlation between the two variables, and the candidate is jumping to the conclusion that television watching causes crime. C. There may be and association, but not a correlation unless the variables are quantitative. There could be a correlation between average number of hours of TV watched per week per person and number of crimes committed per year. Even if there is a relationship, it doesn't mean one causes the other. D. The variables need to be re-expressed to improve the straightness of the relationship.

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In statistics, a categorical variable is a variable that can take on one of a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values, assigning each individual or other unit of observation to a particular group or nominal category on the basis of some qualitative property.

So based on definition Response is categorical variable.

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