Identify the level of measurement of thedata, and explain what is wrong with the given calculation.

In asurvey, the responses of respondents are identified as 10 for a"yes", 20 for a"no", 30 for a"maybe", and 40 for anything else. The average(mean) is calculated for 761 respondents and the result is 22.3.

The data are at the

a)ordinal

b)ratio

c)nominal

d)interval

level of measurement.

What is wrong with the givencalculation?

A.

Such data are not counts or measures ofanything, so the average(mean) needs to be computed in a different way.

B.

Such data are not counts or measures ofanything, so it makes no sense to compute their average(mean).

C.

The true average(mean) is 19.5.

D.

There is nothing wrong with the given calculation.