Hi, I have to answer if each questions is a nominal, ordinal, interval discrete, interval continuous, ratio discrete, or ratio continuous. I would like to know if my answers are correct and if wrong what is the correct answer. Thanks

1. Highest level of education completed?
a. not listed
b. high school
c. college/university
d. Master/doctorate
e. any professional degree
f. technical
Answer: Nominal

2. How old were you at your last birthday?
Answer: Ordinal

3. How much of a common history do you think you share with other Canadians? Would you say
a. A lot
b. Some
c. A little
d. No common History
Answer: Nominal

4. What is your hand span in centimeters?
Answer:Discrete Data

5. Are you
a. married
b. living with a partner
c. widowed
d. separated
e. divorced
Answer:Nominal

6. Do you have allergies?
yes
no
Answer:Nominal

7. What is the length of your right foot without shoes in centimetres?
Answer: Discrete Data

8. What colour are your eyes?
a. blue
b. brown
c. green
d. other
A: Nominal

9. What is your height in centimetres without shoes?
Answer: Continuous Data

10. Currently the outside temperature is ______ degrees celsius?
Answer: Interval Continuous

1. Education can be indicated as "more than" or "less than." Does that fit nominal?

2. If you are 16 and your brother is only 8, can't you say you are twice as old as him? Is that only ordinal?

3. See 1.

4. Continuous and ratio scale.

http://infinity.cos.edu/faculty/woodbury/stats/tutorial/Data_Disc_Cont.htm

5, 6, 8, 10. Yes!

7. See 4.

9. Also ratio scale.

Measurement scales

I. Nominal scale names or classifies only (social security number, baseball, football uniform examples).

II. Ordinal scale also ranks beside naming (height, baseball standings, beauty pageant examples). Most psychological tests are only ordinal scales.

III. Interval scale, beside previous qualities, also has equal intervals and an arbitrary zero (centigrade/Celsius thermometer example).

IV. Ratio scale (Q student, handout) also has a true/absolute zero, which allows comparisons in terms of ratios (Kelvin thermometer, height/weight exams). Math uses ratio scale.

Let's go through your answers:

1. Highest level of education completed?
- Your answer: Nominal
- Correct answer: Nominal
- Explanation: The options provided represent categories or levels without any numerical or hierarchical order.

2. How old were you at your last birthday?
- Your answer: Ordinal
- Correct answer: Ratio discrete
- Explanation: Age can be considered ordinal if it's in ranges or categories, but since the question asks for a specific age, it falls under ratio discrete, as it involves whole numbers without a fixed interval.

3. How much of a common history do you think you share with other Canadians? Would you say...
- Your answer: Nominal
- Correct answer: Ordinal
- Explanation: The options here can be ranked or ordered, indicating varying levels of shared common history, making it an ordinal variable.

4. What is your hand span in centimeters?
- Your answer: Discrete data
- Correct answer: Ratio continuous
- Explanation: Hand span is measured quantitatively and can take any value on a continuous scale, making it a ratio continuous variable.

5. Are you...
- Your answer: Nominal
- Correct answer: Nominal
- Explanation: The options represent distinct categories without any inherent numerical or hierarchical order.

6. Do you have allergies?
- Your answer: Nominal
- Correct answer: Nominal
- Explanation: The choices are distinct categories without any inherent numerical or hierarchical order.

7. What is the length of your right foot without shoes in centimeters?
- Your answer: Discrete data
- Correct answer: Ratio continuous
- Explanation: Foot length can be measured quantitatively and can take any value on a continuous scale, making it a ratio continuous variable.

8. What colour are your eyes?
- Your answer: Nominal
- Correct answer: Nominal
- Explanation: The options represent distinct categories without any inherent numerical or hierarchical order.

9. What is your height in centimeters without shoes?
- Your answer: Continuous data
- Correct answer: Ratio continuous
- Explanation: Height can be measured quantitatively and can take any value on a continuous scale, making it a ratio continuous variable.

10. Currently, the outside temperature is ______ degrees Celsius?
- Your answer: Interval continuous
- Correct answer: Interval continuous
- Explanation: Temperature in degrees Celsius can be measured on a continuous scale, but it falls under the interval category since it doesn't have a true zero point.

Your answers are mostly correct. Here are the corrections for the questions you answered incorrectly:

2. How old were you at your last birthday?
Correction: Interval Continuous

4. What is your hand span in centimeters?
Correction: Ratio Continuous

7. What is the length of your right foot without shoes in centimeters?
Correction: Continuous Data

9. What is your height in centimeters without shoes?
Correction: Ratio Continuous

Overall, your understanding of the data types is good. Keep up the good work!