On a Survey, Individuals Are Asked How Fearful of Crime

question 20

Multiple Choice

On a survey, individuals are asked how fearful of crime they are in their neighborhood. The answer choices are 1 = very fearful; 2 = somewhat fearful; 3 = not very fearful; 4 = not fearful at all. This is an example of which type of variable?

• A) nominal
• B) ordinal
• C) interval
• D) ratio

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Definitions:

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of values, indicating how much individual values differ from the mean.

Correlation

A statistic that measures the degree to which two variables move in relation to each other.

Nonlinear

A term describing the relationship between variables where the effect of changing one variable on another is not constant; it does not follow a straight line.