At the beginning of the semester, an Intro to Statistics instructor asked the 22

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At the beginning of the semester, an Intro to Statistics instructor asked the 225 students enrolled in the class to complete a survey. For each student, the instructor collects information about the following: Sport (Favorite sport: Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Other) Exercise (How many minutes do you spend exercising per week) Personality (on a 0-25 scale, how would you describe your personality 0=total introvert, 25=total extrovert) Death penalty (Strongly agree, Agree, Neutral, Disagree, Strongly Disagree) Which of the variables above is ordinal? Exercise Death penalty Sport Personality

Explanation / Answer

Data on attributes are of two types- ordinal and nominal. They are ordinal when there is a clear ordering of the forms or categories of the attribute.

Here Personality, Death penalty, Exercise are the ordinal variables. Because there is a ordering in each of the three variables.

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