At the end of the school term, students are asked to rate the course and instructor by indicating on a scale of 1-5 how well they liked the course. The data generated from this question are examples of ordinal data.

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Ordinal data is characterized by the order or ranking of the data points without a precise difference between them, which aligns with the rating scale of 1-5 where each number represents a level of liking, but the intervals between the numbers are not necessarily equal.

At the End of the School Term, Students Are Asked