1. Which of the following is an example of nominal data?
a. Number of people on a course
b. Cancer staging scale
c. List of different species of bird visiting a garden over the past week
d. Popularity rating of UK top ten television programmes
e. Heart rate
2. Which of the following are examples of Interval/Ratio data? (2 correct choices)
a. Number of people on a course
b. Cancer staging scale
c. List of different species of bird visiting a garden over the past week
d. Popularity rating of UK top ten television programmes
e. Heart rate
3. Which of the following are examples of Ordinal data? (2 correct choices)
a. Number of people on a course
b. Cancer staging scale
c. List of different species of bird visiting a garden over the past week
d. Popularity rating of UK top ten television programmes
e. Heart rate
4. Which of the following is the correct listing of data from the simplest to the most complex?
a. Nominal -> Ordinal -> Interval -> Transcendental
b. Nominal -> Ordinal -> Interval -> Ratio
c. Qualitative -> Ordinal -> Interval -> Discrete
d. Qualitative -> Ordinal -> Interval -> Ratio
e. Nominal -> Ordinal -> Interval -> Quantitative
5. Which of the following is an incorrect statement about Ranking a dataset?
a. You can rank any dataset as long it is not Nominal
b. Each value in a dataset should only occur once
c. The process of ranking a dataset involves ordering it and then assigning a 'rank' value to each score from 1 to the number of scores in the dataset.
d. When ranking a dataset tied scores receive the average of the rank value given to the ties.
e. The result of ranking a dataset means that you lose the effect of magnitude if the data were Interval/Ratio
