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The document presents an assignment on statistics in psychology, specifically focusing on different scales of measurement. It provides scenarios illustrating nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales, along with justifications for each identification. The examples include preferences for fruits, race rankings, temperature recordings, and weight loss tracking.

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Psy 516

The document presents an assignment on statistics in psychology, specifically focusing on different scales of measurement. It provides scenarios illustrating nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio scales, along with justifications for each identification. The examples include preferences for fruits, race rankings, temperature recordings, and weight loss tracking.

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SemesterFall 2024

Statistics in Psychology
(PSY516)
Assignment01
Student Name: Muqadas Batool Student
Id: BC220211019

Lesson02
Topic: INTRODUCTION TO
STATISTICS IN PSYCHOLOGY-II
Solution:

Sr. No
Scenarios Identification Justification
2*4
3*4
1 A group of
researchers Nominal This is a nominal
conducts a study scale because each
asking 100 fruit is a category
participants to with no inherent
choose their order or ranking. The
favourite type of choices are simply
fruit from a list of labels for different
options: apple, types of fruits
banana, mango, and
orange. Each
participant selects
one fruit, and the
researchers
categorize them
accordingly
2 The ordinal scale is
In a high school ordinal applied since the
sports day, students students ranks( 1st,
are ranked based on 2nd, 3rd) represent an
their race ordered sequences,
performance. Ali but we do know the
finishes 1st, Sohail exact intervals
finishes 2nd, and between each
Salman finishes 3rd. position.
Their positions are
listed in order of
finish, but the exact
time differences
between them are
not recorded.

3 A scientist records This is an interval


the daily high Interval scale because the
temperatures in a temperature
city over a week: measurements allow
55°F on Monday, for equal intervals
60°F on Tuesday, between values, but
and 65°F on the zero point is
Wednesday. The arbitrary and does not
differences between represents an absolute
each day’s of temperature.
temperature are
equal, but the zero
point on this scale
(0°F) does not mean
an absence of
temperature.

4 The ratio scale is


A personal trainer Ratio appropriate here
tracks the weight because weight has
loss progress of an absolute zero (0 kg
clients. One client means no weight )
weighs 70 kg at the and allows for
start and loses 10 kg meaningful
over the course of a comparisons ( e.g.,
month, while one person losing
another client starts twice as much weight
at 100 kg and loses as another)
20 kg. The trainer
compares their
progress, noting that
both lost weight in a
measurable way
with a starting point
of 0 kg representing
no weight.

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