Take a quiz – Data Types by Soumyadip Pal | 1. How does ordinal data differ from nominal data? Nominal data is a name, while ordinal data is a number Nominal data only distinguishes, ordinal data also offers magnitude information Nominal data can be a name or number, while ordinal data can only be number Nominal data can only be a name, while ordinal data can be name or number 2. “The sequential list according which the batsmen in a cricket team would come out to bat” – Which of the following data types does this data set belong to? Nominal Ordinal Ratio Interval 3. A group of 10 people were shown 15 photographs. Each person was asked to choose their favourite photo, and the choices were recorded. What is the data type of the recorded data? Nominal Ordinal Ratio Interval 4. What is the type of data scale marked on a measuring tape? Integer Ratio Nominal Discrete 5. A researcher doing a blind experiment got the respondent data coded with numbers in a column named “Respondent_ID”. What data type is it? Ordinal Continuous Interval Nominal 6. What is the data type for the Rainfall in mm data? Integer data, numeric Integer data, discrete Ratio scale, continuous Ratio scale, discrete Loading … Related posts: Are All Variables the Same? How to Compute the Measures of Dispersion using Microsoft Excel Spearman’s Rank Correlation between Rice and Rainfall The Assumptions in Linear Correlations