A Student Was Studying the Political Party Preferences of a University's

question 56

Multiple Choice

A student was studying the political party preferences of a university's student population. The survey instrument asked students to identify their political preference, for example, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or another party. The best way to illustrate the frequencies for each political preference is a __________.

• A) Bar chart
• B) Box plot
• C) Histogram
• D) Frequency polygon

Grasp the distinction between nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio levels of data and their uses.

Learn about the purpose and importance of inter-item reliability and intercoder reliability.

Understand the concepts of Likert and semantic differential scales and their application in measuring human communication.

Know the significance of a "true" zero in ratio-level measurement.

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