A researcher has numbered all 50 states from 1 to 50 and has calculated a mean of 17.43 for the variable "state of birth."
A)Since the variable is nominal,the mean makes no sense.
B)Since the variable is ordinal,we should treat the value of the mean with great caution.
C)The variable is interval-ratio and the mean is an appropriate and useful statistic in this case.
D)Since this variable is discrete,the mean should not be computed.

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The variable "state of birth" is nominal, meaning it categorizes data without a specific order or ranking. Calculating a mean for nominal data is not meaningful because the numbers assigned to categories do not have quantitative significance.

A Researcher Has Numbered All 50 States from 1 to 50