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Source materials for the following questions will be found in Adventures in Criminal Justice ResearchDowdall, Babbie, and Halley, 3, . Chapters 4, 5, 6. Mark exact pages when you find them.

Try to answer in 25 words or so. Make each answer integral, so that I can read it without reference to the exercise or the question itself.

SPECIAL THANKS TO L. De'Anna English for sending in the exercise, on her own, AND giving the pages in DBH. Thanks. jeanne

Ordinal, nominal and Interval  variables are all levels of measurements.

1. Ordinal variables arrange those categories in some order: from high to low, more or less and so on. (pg.23 SPSS)

2. Interval variables rank not only the rank in order but also the amount of distance between each rank on the variable being measured.  One example is the intelligence quotient (IQ) (pg. 24 SPSS)

3. Nominal variable the simplest sort of measurement in which one has only discrete categories but no ranking categories.  An example of this would be to distinguish men from women. (pg.23 SPSS)