A poll conducted by YouGov (yougov.com) for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph in 2006 asked a random sample of 1962 British adults, “How would you rate George W. Bush as a world leader?” The possible choices were (great, reasonably satisfactory, pretty poor, terrible).

(a) Is this four-category variable nominal, or ordinal?

Why?

(b) Is this variable continuous, or discrete? Why?

(c) Of the 93% of the samplewho responded, the percentages in the four categories were (1, 15, 34, 43). Of the 96%

of a random sample of size 1745 who responded in 2010 about Barack Obama, the percentages were (15, 51, 25, 5). Are these values statistics, or parameters?Why?