Professor Wellman is constructing a demographic questionnaire for use in a research project.One question asks students to report whether they are currently living in an "urban," "suburban," or "rural" setting.This is an example of a/an:
A)nominal scale.
B)ordinal scale.
C)interval scale.
D)ratio scale.

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This question is asking for identification of categories and does not involve any ranking or numerical values, which makes it an example of a nominal scale. The categories "urban," "suburban," and "rural" represent qualitative data, and the responses cannot be ordered or have any quantitative meaning.

Professor Wellman Is Constructing a Demographic Questionnaire for Use in a Research