BESC FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED STUDY SHEET

BESC FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED STUDY SHEET

●● The number of students enrolled at UVU each year is an example of
which level of measurement?
ordinal
ratio
nominal
interval
Answer: ratio


●● The amount of time that a person spends on social media each week
in minutes is a(n) _____ variable.
ordinal
nominal
interval
ratio
Answer: ratio


●● If a person's sex is coded as Male = 0 or Female = 1, then that
variable is at the _____ level of measurement.
ratio

,interval
nominal
ordinal
Answer: nominal


●● If a person's sex is recorded as "Male" or "Female," then that
variable is at the _____ level of measurement.
ordinal
ratio
interval
nominal
Answer: nominal


●● Which level of measurement has a true zero point?
ordinal
ratio
interval
nominal
Answer: ratio


●● The only level of measurement that does not place scores or
categories into order (and is therefore the lowest level of measurement)
is the _____ level of measurement.

, interval
ratio
ordinal
nominal
Answer: nominal


●● The highest level of measurement (i.e., the one that contains the most
information) is the _____ level of measurement.
interval
nominal
ratio
ordinal
Answer: ratio


●● The group of people from whom you actually gather data is called
the _____.
database
sample
population
inferential group
Answer: sample