We are examining data from Monitoring the Future, a nationally representative sample of high
school seniors in the United States. Since many states have now legalized recreational and/or
medical use of marijuana, we are interested whether non-lifetime-marijuana-using high school
senior feel they would try marijuana if it were to become legal. Since many individuals feel that
marijuana is more of a moral issue and less of a health issue, we are examining whether those
who would try and would not try, differ, by level of religiosity. Specifically, we expect that those who
are more religious will be less likely to report intention to try marijuana if it were to become legal to
use.
Religiosity, or level of religiousness, is a mean composite constructed from two ordinal variables
that assesses level of religious attendance and importance. The composite is an average score of
the two variables and ranges from 1 ("low") through 4 ("high"). "Would try" is a dichotomous item:
0 = "no" and 1 = "yes."
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Question 1 (1 point)
What type of measurement is religiosity?
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
