State Populations Currently, California has the largest popula...

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State Populations Currently, California has the largest population with 39,776,830 residents, and Wyoming has the smallest population with 573,520 residents.

b. What is the level of measurement for the numbers of residents in the different states? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

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All right. Hi, everyone. So this question says that a large company has 85,420 employees, while a small business has only 12 employees. What is the level of measurement for the number of employees in different companies? Option A says nominal. B says ordinal, C says interval, and D says ratio. So first, let's understand the different levels of measurement that are represented here by the answer choices. Starting off, for example, with nominal. Now, nominal, if you recall, refers to categories that have no meaningful order. So an example of nominal data would be types of industries that are out there. Ordinal data on the other hand. Makes me think of the word order, which is why I remember that it describes ordered categories. So an example would be a corporate hierarchy. Interval, on the other hand. Actually, Just to backtrack for a moment, both interval and ratio describe data that is ordered with meaningful differences between each value. The difference is that interval has no true zero. With an example being the temperature in Celsius. Ratio, on the other hand, does have a true zero. An example of ratio would be something like revenue. Because in theory, you could make zero revenue. So now let's go back to the example. In this context, the number of employees in a certain company is countable. And in this context, you could in theory have a true zero. Because you could say that a company has 0 employees. Not only is there a true zero, the differences between the values across different companies is meaningful. You would say, for example, that the large company with 85,420 employees is bigger than the one with 12. So therefore, this belongs to the ratio level of measurement, meaning D is the correct answer here. 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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State Populations Currently, California has the largest population with 39,776,830 residents, and Wyoming has the smallest population with 573,520 residents.

b. What is the level of measurement for the numbers of residents in the different states? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)

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State Populations Currently, California has the largest population with 39,776,830 residents, and Wyoming has the smallest population with 573,520 residents.b. What is the level of measurement for the numbers of residents in the different states? (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)