BESC FINAL PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS REVIEW MATERIAL

BESC FINAL PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS REVIEW MATERIAL

●● The number of small businesses opened in a county each year is an
example of which level of measurement?
nominal
interval
ordinal
ratio
Answer: ratio


●● The lowest level of measurement (i.e., the one that contains the least
information) is the ______ level of measurement.
interval
ratio
ordinal
nominal
Answer: nominal


●● If a person's employment is coded as Unemployed = 0 or Employed
= 1, then that variable is at the ______ level of measurement.
ordinal

,nominal
interval
ratio
Answer: nominal


●● A histogram is appropriate when the data are...
nominal or ordinal.
nominal, interval, or ratio.
interval or ratio.
ordinal.
Answer: interval or ratio.


●● A bar chart would work best for which of the following measurement
scales?
Categorical levels
Ordinal or ratio
Nominal or interval
Quantitative levels
Answer: Categorical levels


●● A bell curve (i.e., a normal distribution) is...
leptokurtic.

, mesokurtic.
uniform.
platykurtic.
Answer: mesokurtic


●● Which measure of central tendency works best of negatively skewed
distributions?
Median
Mode
Mean
No measure is appropriate
Answer: Median


●● What is the lowest level of measurement needed to calculate the
mode?
Interval
Any level but the distribution must be symmetrical
Nominal
Any level that doesn't have outliers
Answer: Nominal


●● In a negatively skewed distribution, which measure will generally
have the highest value?