SOLUTION: A study of elementary school academic performance classifies the students in the sample by their grade level: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, or

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Question 1191789: A study of elementary school academic performance classifies the students in the sample by their grade level: K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) is most appropriate for this data?
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These is ordinal data. It can be ranked, but the difference in adjacent grades is not uniform. It is not nominal, for there is a quantitative difference among the six groups.