Here are a number of references to variables. For each, identify whether a nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio

scale is being used.

a) The temperature in cities throughout the country that are listed in most newspapers.

b) The birth weights of babies who were born at Wilshire General Hospital last week.

c) The number of hours you spent studying each day during the past week.

d) The amount of tip left after each meal at a restaurant during a 3 hour period.

e) The number of votes received by the Republican and Democratic candidates for Congress in your

district in the last election.

f) The brand listed third in a consumer magazines ranking of DVD players.

g) Connecticuts listing as the number one team in a poll of sportswriters, with Kansas listed number

two.

h) Your friends score of logic on an intelligence test.

i) Yellow walls in your office and white walls in your bosss office.

j) The type of programming on each radio station in your city (e.g., KPSY plays jazz, KSOC is talk

radio).

k) Ethnic group categories of people in a neighborhood.