George Hubbard has nearly completed designing a survey for a political candidate. Not only is the candidate interested in knowing how constituents in her state feel about certain issues, but she is interested in knowing if attitudes toward these issues differ by demographic subgroups. One of the demographic questions George has added to the survey is religious preference. He asked this question in a way that respondents would indicate their preference by checking a blank box alongside the name of several possible religious affiliations such as "Catholic," "Methodist," "Muslim," and so on. George knows that he should anticipate how he is going to analyze the data before he completes the survey questions. As he looks at the religious preference question, he knows that because it's measurement level is ________, he should use a ________ to report the central tendency and a ________ to report variability.
A) ratio; median; range
B) nominal; median; frequency distribution
C) ordinal; median; standard deviation
D) nominal; mode; frequency; and/or percentage distribution
E) interval; mean; standard deviation; and/or range

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The question asks for respondents to indicate their religious preference by checking a blank box, which indicates nominal measurement. Therefore, the appropriate measure of central tendency is the mode, and the appropriate measure of variability is frequency and/or percentage distribution. The other options are incorrect because they either refer to different measurement levels (A, C, E) or inappropriate measures for nominal data (B).

George Hubbard Has Nearly Completed Designing a Survey for a Political