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So there's a newspaper that asked 46 questions of their subscribers about their characteristics and their interests.
00:12
And we are tasked with stating whether each of these questions provide categorical or quantitative data and what type of scale they would use for each.
00:25
So what is your age? that's going to be a quantitative value because it's going to be a number.
00:31
And it's going to be a ratio level of measurement because ratio has a zero that means an absence of something.
00:41
So zero means none.
00:48
As opposed to say temperature, which has a zero, you can have zero degrees, but doesn't mean absence of pressure of temperature.
00:55
But here, a zero, if someone gave an age of zero, it means their age is zero.
01:02
There is no age.
01:04
Male or female is going to be categorical and it's nominal, meaning male and female are your categories, and you could order them in any way.
01:13
You could put male first, then female, or you could switch around to female first than male.
01:20
It has no order to it.
01:24
When did you first start reading in high school, college, early career, mid career, late career, retirement? that'd be categorical, except this is called ordinal...