Question

1. You are working with older adults in a geriatric care unit. Your nurse manager asks you to measure the intake of desserts in the dining hall. You report that 3 adults consumed 0 desserts, 27 adults consumed 1 dessert, and 33 adults consumed 2 or more desserts. What level of measurement is dessert consumption?

   	A.	Interval
   	B.	Ratio
   	C.	Ordinal
   	D.	Nominal

2. A measure of a person's weight loss in a 6 week exercise program would be what level of management?

	A.	Ratio
	B.	Ordinal
	C.	Nominal
	D.	Interval

3. The patient is diagnosed with diverticulitis and must undergo an emergency resection. He now has a surgical incision, and you are ordered to ambulate the patient 24 hours post-op. The patient reports a great increase in pain upon ambulation. To assess this association, the independent variable you may wish to study would be:

	A.	The surgical incision
	B.	The patient's pain level
	C.	Ambulation
	D.	The patient

4. You are working with older adults in a geriatric care unit. Your nurse manager asks you to measure the intake of desserts in the dining hall. You report that 3 adults consumed 0 desserts, 27 adults consumed 1 dessert, and 33 adults consumed 2 or more desserts. What level of measurement is dessert consumption?

	A.	Interval
	B.	Ratio
	C.	Ordinal
	D.	Nominal

5. A study of a random sample of college students finds that the true average college student receives a mean of 5 hours of sleep per night. The mean is a:

	A.	Nominal value
	B.	Statistic
	C.	Parameter
	D.	Ordinal value

Answer 1

1. Ordinal

This level of measurement depicts some ordered relationship among the variable’s observations

2. Interval

The interval level of measurement not only classifies and orders the measurements, but it also specifies that the distances between each interval on the scale are equivalent along the scale from low interval to high interval.  

3. Ambulation

Here, patient's level of pain is the outcome which will be dependent upon the treatment (independent variable) she/he has gone earlier.

The treatment mentioned here is ambulation.

4. Ordinal

Same as problem 1.

5. Statistic

A parameter reflects a population while a statistic describes a random sample.