Please Refer to the Below Scenario: a Friend of Yours

question 27

Multiple Choice

Please refer to the below scenario: A friend of yours assigned a code of 1 to "male" and a code of 2 to "female" on the variable gender.Your friend asked the computer to compute the average score on gender.The computer printout contained the following information: mean = 1.38,standard deviation = .432,median = 1.4 and mode = 1.0.
What is your friend's problem with the computer information?

• A) asking for measures of central tendency on continuous variables
• B) asking for measures of central tendency and dispersion on nominal variables
• C) asking for the mode and the standard deviation in the same report
• D) asking for measures of dispersion on continuous variables

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