A Researcher Has Numbered All 50 States from 1 to 50

question 16

Multiple Choice

A researcher has numbered all 50 states from 1 to 50 and has calculated a mean of 17.43 for the variable "state of birth."

• A)Since the variable is nominal,the mean makes no sense.
• B)Since the variable is ordinal,we should treat the value of the mean with great caution.
• C)The variable is interval-ratio and the mean is an appropriate and useful statistic in this case.
• D)Since this variable is discrete,the mean should not be computed.

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