20 Questions

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TRUE or FALSE

1. Performance Appraisal (Outstanding, Good,

Satisfactory, Unsatisfactory) are an interval
scale.

2. Satisfaction measured using Bipolar Likert (Very

Satisfactory, Satisfactory.etc) is an interval
scale.

3. A semantic differential like the one

below serves like an interval scale
though strictly it may not be
I find the MBA program @ IFMR (please tick only one of the 5
boxes below).
Very
much
Interesti
ng

Somewh
at

Neither

Somewh

Very

at

much
Boring

4. Even if we add up the number of correct answers

in test, not all problems are equally difficult and
thus that 80% right answers is not twice as good
as 40% right answers. So test scores are
definitely ratio scales.

5. If you want to use the normal distribution and

related tests, the data must have mean and
standard deviation. So you cannot use data from
nominal and ordinal scales if you want to use
normal distribution, correlation, regression etc.

6. I make a test of 30 items all about multiplying (say 22 x 15 etc.).

Then using random numbers I rearrange them in 10 different
ways, so that there is no sequence effect (I am worried that
students may get tired as the test progresses). Then I administer
the 10 tests to 10 students each i.e. to 100 students. I find out
the proportion of students who correctly answer each question.
On that basis I look for questions that have been answered
correctly by the same proportion of students and classify them as
being as the same level of difficulty. Now I found 10 questions of
the same level of difficulty (i.e. 50% of the students answered
each correctly). Next I use these 10 questions to evaluate
multiplication skills among students (not the same students but
similar students). Thus I have created a ratio scale.

7. In the interval scale there is no absolute Zero.

8. I can use the Median only for Ordinal data. I
cannot use the Median for Interval and Ratio
data.
9. It is easy to find the standard deviation for both
Nominal and Ordinal data.
10.The Pie Chart is best suited to deal with
interval and ratio scale data.
11.The only measure of central tendency for the
nominal scale data is the Median.

12.The higher level scales automatically have the benefits

of the lower level scales, for e.g. even in the ratio scale,
the higher number data point is above the lower
number data point.
13.The Median is always less than Mean
14.The Median is always somewhere between the Mean
and the Mode
15.A data set can have only one Mode
16.The second quartile is more commonly known as the
Median

17.Outliers are defined as data points that are greater

than the 3rd quartile or less than the 1 st quartile
18.In common language, when people say average,
they are talking about the arithmetic mean
19.If we are looking at the short term yields in the stock
market, we can recognize the arithmetic mean and
the standard deviation, but if we are looking that the
long term yield we must find the CAGR
20.An Ogive is constructed using the frequency
distribution and a histogram is constructed using the
cumulative frequency distribution

Thank you