are used for labeling variables without any quantative data
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nominal
labeling
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examples of nominal data
what is your gender? -female -male What is your height? - tall -short
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odinal data
data which is placed into some kind of order in scale/ Scaling/ ranking
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examples of ordinal data
12/15 on a test= its a scaling out of 15 | Rating happiness out of 1-10
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interval data
fixed units with equal distance between points in scale (measurements) numerical value where the difference between points are standardised and meaningful
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example are interval data
temperature (10-20 degrees) IQ measurements
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ratio data
same as interval - numerical value but there must be a true zero meaning it is not possible to have a negative value in ratio data
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an example
is time 0 time is meaningful but there's no negative values in time,
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labeling
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nominal
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what is your gender? -female -male What is your height? - tall -short
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data which is placed into some kind of order in scale/ Scaling/ ranking
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Card 5
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12/15 on a test= its a scaling out of 15 | Rating happiness out of 1-10
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