Question

an epidemiologist wants to investigate attitudes towards climate change in high school students. he conducts a study at palm springs high school in tampa, fl. he then samples students from freshman year through senior year. a frequency histogram is shown below. frequency histogram for year in school what type of variable is student year (freshman, sophomore, etc.)? dichotomous continuous ordinal categorical

Explanation:

Student year (Freshman, Sophomore, etc.) has an order (Freshman < Sophomore < Junior < Senior), so it is an ordinal variable. Ordinal variables have categories with a natural order. It's not dichotomous (only two categories), not continuous (can't take on any value within a range), and while it is categorical, the key feature is the order, making ordinal the most appropriate.

Answer:

Ordinal