Dr Alier Is Examining Psychopathic Tendencies Among Prisoners and Nurses

Multiple Choice

Dr. Alier is examining psychopathic tendencies among prisoners and nurses. He decided to provide a self-report questionnaire to prisoners and nurses and asked them to complete it. Dr. Alier and his research assistants then followed up with individual interviews for all of the participants. Scores on the self-report scale ranged from 0 to 106. In this example psychopathic tendencies are a(n) :

A) interval variable.
B) continuous variable.
C) ordinal variable.
D) categorical variable.