E-Cigarette Survey In a survey of 36,000 adults, 3.7% said tha...

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E-Cigarette Survey In a survey of 36,000 adults, 3.7% said that they regularly use E-cigarettes (based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics)

c. What is the level of measurement of the value of 3.7%? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

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OK, hi everyone. So this question says, 5.2% out of 28,500 college students surveyed said they exercise daily according to data from the National Fitness Association. Which of the following is the level of measurement of the value 5.2%. Option A says nominal, Option B says ordinal, C says interval, and D says ratio. So before we can go ahead and talk about Which one of these options is the correct answer. Let's first go ahead and talk about what they mean, right? What do these levels of measurement actually refer to? Well, each answer choice represents a different level of measurement. Starting off with nominal, for example, nominal data consists of things like names. Labels And any category in general that doesn't have a meaningful order to it. If you consider, for example, data like types of exercises. The types of exercises represent different categories, but they. But they aren't represented in a certain order. This, on the other hand, is in contrast with ordinal data. Now, in ordinal data, the difference is that the data does have a meaningful order, but there's no. Measurable difference. Or what I mean by that is that the differences between each category aren't measurable. So an example of ordinal data would be categories like low, medium, and high. This brings us now to an interval. Now, in an interval, the difference between values is meaningful, but in an interval there is no true zero. This is in contrast to a ratio where differences are meaningful, and this time there is a true zero. So going back to the question at hand here, the 5.2% reported represents the percentage of college students that say that they exercise daily. So here In this case, The 5.2% is qualitative because it's a number that was measured and a meaningful zero exists, because, for example, A 0% in this context would mean that nobody exercises daily, or at least nobody that was surveyed says that they exercise daily. So therefore, right, the level of measurement in this case would be a ratio. Because it does have a true 0. And the differences in percentages would be meaningful in this context. So our answer is going to be option D in the multiple choice. And there you have it. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching, and I hope you found this helpful.

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E-Cigarette Survey In a survey of 36,000 adults, 3.7% said that they regularly use E-cigarettes (based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics)

c. What is the level of measurement of the value of 3.7%? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

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Levels of Measurement

Ratio Level of Measurement

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E-Cigarette Survey In a survey of 36,000 adults, 3.7% said that they regularly use E-cigarettes (based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics)c. What is the level of measurement of the value of 3.7%? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)