Chapter 2: Exercise 5 A novice researcher begins an analysis of the GSS08 data a

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Chapter 2: Exercise 5 A novice researcher begins an analysis of the GSS08 data and wants to understand the distribution of income in the United States. She looks at the data in the Data View and sees values that range mostly from 1 to 25, but occasionally also sees the number 98 (you can do this by finding the variable INCOME06 in the GSS08 data). She explains to her instructor that the data must be wrong because almost no one has an income of "10". Her instructor tells her the data are fine, and asks her to come back when she can tell him how much a family income is for an observation that is listed as "10". a. What does "10" in the INCOME06 variable indicate? b. What is the reason for the novice researcher's confusion?

Explanation / Answer

10 indicates a measurement scale can be defined as a plan that is used to assign numbers to characteristics of objects. Generally severally types of measurements scales are available, the levels of measurements are nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio.

For the given sceniors we are using ordinal method as the best parameters.

The confusion is due to lack of scalling in parameter.

We have to identify direct reflection of the characteristic of interest.

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