Critical thinking:Numbers are often assigned to data that ar…

Critical thinking:Numbers are often assigned to data that are categorical in nature. Consider these number assignments for category items describing electronic ways of expressing personal opinions: 1 = Twitter; 2 = email; 3 = text message; 4 = Facebook; 5 = blog. The above numerical assignments are at ratio of level of measurement.

Critical thinking:Numbers are often assigned to data that ar…

Critical thinking:Numbers are often assigned to data that are categorical in nature. Consider these number assignments for category items describing electronic ways of expressing personal opinions: 1 = Twitter; 2 = email; 3 = text message; 4 = Facebook; 5 = blog. The above numerical assignments are at ordinal level of measurement.

Count the letters in each word of this sentence and give the…

Count the letters in each word of this sentence and give the mean. (The numbers of the letters in the words of the sentence are) :    5         3       7       2      4      4     2    4     8         3      4       3      4;    In this case the mean is  = 4.07