Questions1. Using the survey that you constructed in the Module
3 Workshop, identify a nominal, ordinal, and continuous variable: write out
each example of the question with variable levels with choices from your
survey. Identify the appropriate measures of central tendency for each type of
variable (mode, median, mean).
2. Identify 2 variables in your Module 3 Workshop
survey that you would like to check for a correlation. What correlation
statistic would you use (lambda, gamma or Pearsons’)? Why?
3. Define validity and reliability and explain why
they are important in the research process.
4. Differentiate between causation and correlation.
5. Explain the meaning of statistical significance and
why it is important.
6. What is a spurious correlation? Give an example and
explain why it is a spurious correlation.