BESC 3010 CH 1.
The number of students enrolled in a school each year is an example of which level of measurement?
ratio
Which level of measurement has a true zero point?
ratio
In an experiment that looks at the effect of different teaching methods on student learning, the independent variable is...
teaching method
A bivariate analysis typically focuses on...
the association of two variables.
Which is bigger: a sample or a population?
a population
If a web marketer compares the effectiveness of two online ads in getting click by gathering data from 3 million Internet shoppers, the population of interest is...
all internet shoppers
A question that asks a person how strong their motivations for religious participation are using a 1-7 rating scale is at the _____ level of measurement.
interval
If the number of games a team has lost in a season is subtracted from the number of games that they won in that season, the resulting variable would be at the _____ level of measurement.
interval
Temperature in celsius or Fahrenheit (but not Kelvin) is measured at which level of measurement?
interval
For a study to be considered an experiment, it must have...
manipulation
A univariate analysis typically focuses on...
one variable at a time
A question that asks whether a person believes they are more creative, less creative, or just as creative as other people is at the _____ level of measurement.
ordinal
A sample is a part of a larger...
population
A question that asks how many times a person attends religious services each year is at the _____ level of measurement.
ratio
A variable that records how many seconds it take for a person to spell a word backwards is at the _____ level of measurement.
ratio
The amount of time that a person spends on social media each week in minutes is a(n) _____ variable.
ratio
Which of the following is a defining characteristic of experiments?
Manipulations
The variable that is measured as the outcome in an experiment is called the _____ variable.
dependent
Inferential statistics are typically contrasted with _____ statistics.
descriptive
In an experiment, the variable that the researcher manipulates is called the _____ variable.
independent
A question that asks a person which religion (if any) they identify with is at the _____ level of measurement.
nominal
A variable that classifies people into racial or ethnic groups is what level of measurement?
nominal
The respondent's gender is typically recorded as a(n) _____ variable.
nominal
If a researcher is able to survey 99% of all students enrolled in statistics classes at a college, then that researcher has gathered data from a(n)...
sample
A population can never be...
smaller than one of its samples
