University of Phoenix Material
Week 1 Practice Worksheet
Prepare a written response to the following questions.
Chapter 1
1. Explain and give an example for each of the following types of variables:
a. Nominal: This is a measurement that has a number assigned to show something or someone else, an example of this would be one’s social security number.
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.
c. Interval: These are measurements don’t include zeros and have equivalent units. A good example would be that of point scales.
d. Ratio scale: These stats includes zeros and are dispersed
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Raskauskas and Stoltz (2007) asked a group of 84 adolescents about their involvement in traditional and electronic bullying. The researchers defined electronic bullying as “…a means of bullying in which peers use electronics {such as text messages, emails, and defaming Web sites} to taunt, threaten, harass, and/or intimidate a peer” (p.565). The table below is a frequency table showing the adolescents’ reported incidence of being victims or perpetrators or traditional and electronic bullying.
a. Using this table as an
1. A fast-food restaurant asks customers to evaluate the drive-thru service as good, average, or poor. What level of data measurement is this classification?
Measurement that shows the order or rank of items. An example of ordinal could be ranking places in a contest, or test scores.
The term sensation is used when referencing the process of sensing the environment through taste, touch, sound, smell, and sight (Goldstein, 2014). Moreover, it is the process that occurs once the sensory receptor experiences stimulation, which in turn produces nerve impulses that are sent to the brain to be processed in its raw form, then perception comes into play (Goldstein, 2014). Perception is used to describe the way people interpret these sensations and tries to make sense of everything around them on a daily basis. Perception is the occurrences of the brain
Okay people, try not to laugh too loud, but I thought the bread and wine were called sacraments. Now, I find out that to be politically correct, they are referred to as the elements of the sacrament. As a Baptist, the Lord’s Supper or Communion, which are ordinances, were not commonly referred to as a sacrament which is the religious ceremony.
Answer: The variable is nominal because the question is asking for what type of diabetes a person has and is put into 3 categories.
Interval-Level: Indicates the levels between categories, ranks them and specifies the amount between each rank; does not have a true zero (Ex: IQ
There are two factors that contribute to sound localization the first is the pinna also known as the outer ear, it is cup shaped to allow you to hear what’s in front of you. Then there is the fact that you have two ears on each side of yor head, sound in each ear may differ so the brain can determine where the sound is coming from because it is receiving sound from both.
“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.
In the High School Longitudinal Study database the variables are measured by a number. Measurement variables could be referred to as quantitative variables or numeric variables. These variables could be nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio variables. In most cases a researcher would be most interested in the dependent variable. Examples of dependent variable are usually weight, height or length. Examples of independent variables are time, age. Things that would cause the dependent variable.
Determine which of the four levels of measurement is most appropriate and explain your answer.
4) Which level of measurement is required for the median? A. Nominal B. OrdinalC. IntervalD. Ratio
1-4 For each of the following,classify the variable as either qualitative or quantitative.if it is quantitative,state whether it is discrete or continuous.
Bullying is a form of social interaction that is shaped by social norms of youths and adults as well schools and broader society. Bullying used to be thought of a playground hazard, perhaps even an essential rite of the passage. Most of the time have changed and there is increasing recognition that bullying can affect anyone, of any age, from childhood to adulthood, and that it makes lives miserable and unpleasant. Online and offline bullying are often related. A bullying relationship in school often extends to technology devices. Offline bullying is more prevalent among middle school students, where cyber bullying is more common among high school students. Youth involved in bullying whether they are the perpetrator or the victim tend to have
|The decision maker has no control over them. | |c. |The variables have no relationship to one another. | |d. |The variable is described as an output of the spreadsheet model.