Users of Psychological Tests Are Frequently Tempted to Treat Ordinal

question 116

Multiple Choice

Users of psychological tests are frequently tempted to treat ordinal data as if it were interval data.This is the case because of the

• A) difficulties that would be encountered if the data were treated as ratio data.
• B) frequent need to do more than simply rank order test scores.
• C) data manipulation capabilities given the equal intervals between points measured.
• D) added flexibility of interval level data for statistical manipulation.

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