For each of the following examples of criminal justice studies, state whether th
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For each of the following examples of criminal justice studies, state whether the scale of measurement used is nominal, ordinal, or at least interval (i.e., interval or ratio). Explain your choice in complete sentences.
Nominal: offer names or labels or characteristics (race, gender, state of residence)
ordinal: attributes can be logically rank ordered (education, opinions, occupational status)
Interval: meaningful distance between attributes (temperature, IQ)
Ratio: has a true zero point (age, # of priors, sentence length, income)
a. In a door-to-door survey, residents of a neighborhood are asked how many times over the past year they (or anyone in their household) have been the victims of any type of crime.
b. Parole-board members rate inmate behavior on a scale with values ranging from 1 to 10; a score of 1 represents exemplary behavior.
c. One hundred college students are asked whether they have ever been arrested.
d. A researcher checks prison records to determine the racial background of prisoners assigned to a particular cell block.
e. A criminologist measures the diameters (in centimeters) of the skulls of inmates who have died in prison, in an attempt to develop a biological theory of the causes of criminality.
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Explanation / Answer
A. Is a ratio scale because there may be an individual or individuals who have never been a victim of any crime,hence, it has true zero scale.
B. Is an ordinal scale because the behaviors of the inmates are ranked .
C. Is an order scale in which the students either fall in the order of arrested or in the order of not arrested.
D.Is a nominal scale as the researcher is concerned just with the racial background of prisoners assigned to a particular cell block.
E. Is an interval scale because the measurements of skull definitely won't have a true zero and they have a meaningful distance of measurement for the research.
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