Research Methods

Question 1

What are the four types of quantitative data?

Answer 1

• Nominal
• Ordinal
• ratio
• interval

Question 2

Nominal data

Answer 2

-Data that’s grouped into categories that don’t have a natural order
- e.g. favourite colour

Question 3

Ordinal data

Answer 3

• Data grouped into categories that do have a natural order
• e.g. A level grades

Question 4

Ratio data

Answer 4

• Data that tells us exactly how much bigger one number is than the other
• Cannot go below zero
• e.g. Mass

Question 5

Interval data

Answer 5

• Data that tells us exactly how much bigger one number is than the other
• Can go below zero
• e.g. temperature