In a Study of How College Students Give Directions from Maps

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Essay

In a study of how college students give directions from maps, 40 Introductory Psychology volunteers, 20 men and 20 women, were given the task of giving directions to another. Observations were made of subjects' direction-giving behavior in the experiment:
(a)whether the map was available, or the directions were given from memory,
(b)the sex of the direction giver,
(c)the distances given as part of the directions,
(d)the number of times directions such as North, Southwest, etc. were used, and
(e)the frequency of errors in the directions
For each of the variables in this experiment, determine whether it is categorical or numerical. For each numerical variable, determine whether it is discrete or continuous:
(a)whether the map was available, or the directions were given from memory
(b)the sex of the direction giver
(c)the distances given as part of the directions
(d)the number of times directions such as North, Southwest, etc. were used
(e)Frequency of errors in the directions

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