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Drayton S WK1 A Week 1: Variables, Measurement, and Walden University 14:48:28 GMT -05:00 The data set analyzed for this assignment was the High School Longitudinal Study () that was conducted in 2009. The study is composed of surveys and assessments from over twenty- four thousand students, parents, and varies levels of school personal. The purpose of the study was to examine and analyze years of collected data from high school students secondary and post-secondary academic journey. In the study the variable X1SES measured the socio- economic status composite. Variable S2MPERSON1 measured whether the teenager sees himself/ herself as a math person. Variable X1SES was identified in the data set as Ratio (scale). Dietz & Kalof (2009) suggests that ratio numbers have all the properties of interval numbers, but also have a natural zero point. Variable S2MPERSON1 was identified as ordinal. In ordi