A researcher wants to test the hypothesis that male and female judges differ in the severity of the sentences they hand down. The researcher gender as male or female and sentence gathers a sample of judges and measures gender as male or female and sentence severity as the number of prison sentences they issue in 1 year. Which is following is true about the independent variable and the level of measurement.

Group of answer choices

Sentence severity, ordinal and continuous

Judge gender, interval and continuous

Sentence severity, ratio, continuous

Judge gender, nominal and categorical