In 2011 I got married and we went to Disney Florida for our honeymoon. The amount of time could be split into infinitely small divisions (nanoseconds even) and there is a meaningful true zero (no time spent learning your instrument means that, like 911, you can’t play at all). This is a continuous and ratio variable.
The time they had spent learning to play their instruments.This variable is categorical and nominal too: the instruments have no meaningful order but their names tell us something useful (guitar, bass, drums, etc.).The instruments played by the band members.Taking a very simplistic view of gender, the variable might contain categories of male, female, and non-binary. This variable is categorical: the people dishing out their phone numbers could fall into one of several categories based on how they self-identify when asked about their gender (their gender identity could be fluid).The gender of the people giving the bands their phone numbers.A bigger phone number did not mean that it was given by a better person. This variable is categorical and nominal too: the phone numbers have no meaningful order they might as well be letters.The phone numbers that the bands obtained because of their fame.This variable is categorical and nominal: the name of the drug tells us something meaningful (crack, cannabis, amphetamine, etc.) but has no meaningful order.The type of drugs bought by the band with their royalties.If the drummer buys 100 g of cocaine and the singer buys 1 kg, then the singer has 10 times as much. This variable is continuous and ratio.The weight of drugs bought by the band with their royalties.It is continuous because money (pounds, dollars, euros or whatever) can be broken down into very small amounts (you can earn fractions of euros even though there may not be an actual coin to represent these fractions). The money earned by the bands from the downloads.So, this variable tells us the order of magnitude of downloads, but doesn’t tell us how many downloads there actually were. We know that the band at number 1 sold more than the band at number 2 or 3 (and so on) but we don’t know how many more downloads they had. Their positions in the iTunes download chart.The fact that Norwegian black metal band 1349 called themselves 1349 does not make them better than British boy-band has-beens 911 the fact that 911 were a bunch of talentless idiots does, though. Bands can be identified by their name, but the names have no meaningful order. It is discrete because you can download only whole songs, and it is ratio because it has a true and meaningful zero (no downloads at all). The number of downloads of different bands’ songs on iTunes:.What is the level of measurement of the following variables?
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