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Different Types Of Data- Levels Of Measurement Flashcards

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What is nominal data

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Categories
- each pp only appears in 1 category
-if you did 400m race or 100m race
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What is ordinal data

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Data that can be ordered (ranked)
- 1st 2nd 3rd in a race

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What is interval data

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-data that can be measured
- eg how long it took them to race

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Evaluation of nominal data

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-Easily gathered and generated through questionnaire quick and cheap
- too simplistic

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