Given the growing popularity of video games among young people, one study examined how women are portrayed in these games (Dietz, 1998). Dr. Dietz was particularly interested in whether video games maintain gender role stereotypes or contain violence against women. She viewed 25 video games with human characters popular at that time and defined the primary role of women in each of them. Each video game was placed into one of five groups: no female characters, female characters portrayed as sex objects, females as the victim, females as the hero, or females in traditional feminine roles.

a. Create a frequency distribution table for these data.

b. What level of measurement is this variable?

c. Construct an appropriate figure for these data.

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Video Game Role of Women 1 Victim 2 No females 3. No females 4 Victim 5 No females 6 Sex object 7 Sex object 8 9 10 11 12 Sex object No females Hero Sex object No females 13 No females 14 45 No females No females Sex object No females 15 16 17 18 Hero 19 Hero 20 21 22 23 Feminine No females Victim Sex object 24 Hero 25 Victim