Question

A study is done to determine how much college students enjoy the song "The Box" by Roddy Ricch. 25 of Stone's JWU students are surveyed and asked to rate the song on a scale of 1-5 where 1 means you hate the song and 5 means you love it. Tell me the following:

1) The population of the study.

2) The sample of the study.

3) What type of data this is - Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio? Explain why.

Answer 1

1) The population of the study.

All college students enjoying the song "The Box" by Roddy Ricch. 25 of Stone's

2) The sample of the study.

25 of Stone's JWU students

n=sample size=25

3) What type of data this is - Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio? Explain why.

ordinal scale

as songs are rated 1-5

measurements with ordinal scales are ordered in the sense higher numbers represent higher values

here songs are ordered from 1-5

so scale is ordinal

There are no meaningful differences between values