A Team of Researchers Is Interested to Know Whether Lesbian

Multiple Choice

A team of researchers is interested to know whether lesbian, gay and bisexual individuals tend to perceive higher levels of gender discrimination at work than heterosexual people. They create Figure 6.1. SEXORNT is a variable corresponding to the survey question "Which of the following best describes you? Gay, lesbian or homosexual, bisexual, straight or heterosexual?" WKSEXISM corresponds to the survey question, "Do you feel in any way discriminated against on your job because of your gender?"
Figure 6.1

-The variable, SEXORNT, is best described as:

A) an ordinal-level variable
B) a dummy variable
C) a nominal-level variable
D) an interval-ratio-level variable