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misspop

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What type of scale is a researcher using when they collect demographic information such as ethnicity, religion, sex, or school classification?
 
  a. ordinal
  b. nominal
  c. ratio
  d. interval

Question 2

Merry is working on a research project about the influence of caffeine consumption on alertness. She has developed two hypotheses. Her second hypothesis states that there will be an increase in alertness with the consumption of caffeine.
 
  This hypothesis is known as a hypothesis.
 
  a. null
  b. directional
  c. research
  d. nondirectional



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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B



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