a. Gender of the townspeople
Constant Variable
b. Location of Letterkenny
Constant Variable
c. Sexual orientation of Letterkenny residents
Constant Variable
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3. Identify which measure of central tendency is described with each statement. There is only one correct answer per item.
a. This can only be interpreted meaningfully with interval or ratio level data: Mean
b. This measure is always influenced by the presence of extreme scores in the dataset: Median
c. This is the measure that most people automatically think of when they hear the word "average": Mean
d. This would be used to report the category or class interval that is most frequently seen in the data for a given variable: Mode
e. This divides the dataset into two equal halves: Median
f. This measure can be used with all four levels of measurement: Mean
g. This measure is most closely related to measures of variability: Mode
h. This is the measure of central tendency that is reported most frequently in the psychological research literature: Mean