When You Have an Ordinal Variable Such as Order of Preferences

Multiple Choice

When you have an ordinal variable such as order of preferences for an event and another variable such as gender that is dichotomous from independent samples, you will choose which one of the following for your statistical analysis?

A) the one-sample t Test
B) Pearson's product moment correlation
C) the Mann-Whitney U Test
D) Spearman rank correlation coefficient