Exam 1: The Language of Statistics

If you collected data on the age of your customers and how much they enjoyed shopping at your business, this would be an example of a(n) ______.

Nominal data would be considered dichotomous when ______.

Data that can be divided infinitely while remaining meaningful are continuous data.

A construct is ______.

The difference between an experiment and a quasi-experiment is that ______.

For the following questions, consider the table below: Training Test score 1 A 15 2 A 14 3 B 19 4 20 5 10 6 11 -The table above, as a whole, depicts a ______.

Which of the following could be considered an operational definition for customer satisfaction?

Qualitative data refer to qualities, like letters or words.

If you were running an experiment in which employees completed a training program or no training program at all, participants who completed the training program would be in the ______ condition.

If you collect data from participants on more than one variable without making any changes, you are conducting a correlational study.

Favourite colour is an example of a dichotomous variable.

The following statement is an example of a hypothesis: "Employees who report being happier on a 5-point Likert-type scale will also report being more satisfied on a 5-point Likert-type scale."

A common type of numerically-scored survey item is a ______.

A dataset is a collection of data linked together in a meaningful way.

Define and give an example of each of the four scales of measurement.

A ______ is a theoretical group that you want to draw conclusions about.

Interval data ______.

Which of the following would be considered ordinal data (but not interval data)?

You should not draw conclusions about causality from an experiment.

For the following questions, consider the table below: Training Test score 1 A 15 2 A 14 3 B 19 4 20 5 10 6 11 -If employees were randomly assigned to Training A, B or C, this table depicts ______.