A student services employee advises 50 undergraduate students. For each student, she records the "type of student" for which they classify: a) traditional; b) non-traditional. She computes the standard deviation for "type of student." Is this appropriate given the measurement scale of this variable?

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The "type of student" variable is categorical (nominal), and standard deviation is a measure of variability that applies to interval or ratio scales, not to nominal or ordinal scales.

A Student Services Employee Advises 50 Undergraduate Students