Data

Question 1

What is data?

Answer 1

factual information (such as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation

Question 2

Highest level of data

Answer 2

Quantitative and Qualitative data

Question 3

Quantitative data

Answer 3

deals with numbers and things you can measure objectively: dimensions
such as height, width, and length. Temperature and humidity. Prices. Area and volume.

Question 4

Qualitative data

Answer 4

deals with characteristics and descriptors that can’t be easily measured,
but can be observed subjectively—such as smells, tastes, textures, attractiveness, and color.

Question 5

Discrete data

Answer 5

is a count that cannot be made more precise. Typically, it involves integers.

Question 6

Continuous data

Answer 6

divided and reduced to finer and finer levels. For example, you can measure the height of your kids at progressively more precise scales— meters, centimeters, millimeters, and beyond.

Question 7

Nominal Data or Categorical Data

Answer 7

cannot rank nor do mathematical calculations with the data we obtained (the information can only be categorized.

Question 8

Ordinal Data

Answer 8

the information we can extract are order and ranking – excellent, good, satisfactory, unsatisfactory. Here, the data is not only categorical, it can also be ranked according to increasing or decreasing value.

Question 9

Interval Data

Answer 9

the information we can extract is differences in measurement but zero has no absolute meaning – temperature.

Question 10

Ratio Data

Answer 10

the information we can extract is differences in measurement AND zero has an absolute meaning – test scores. (height, age)

Question 11

Binary

Answer 11

TWO possible categories