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For the first part of our question, we want to write two questions that you could ask students in your class that would result in categorical data.
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Well, categorical data is the kind of thing where we should expect answers that are words, not numbers.
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So, if we asked our class, what is your favorite sport to watch? what kind of answers might we get? we might get answers like basketball or maybe soccer.
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Those, because they are words, they are categories.
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That's how we know it would produce categorical data.
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How about our second question? what is your favorite color? what types of answers might we hear? we might hear red.
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We might hear blue.
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Once again, those are not numbers.
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Those are words.
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Those are categories, so we know they're categorical data.
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Now, there are lots of other questions we could ask that would give us categorical data, but hopefully those will help you understand what categorical data is...