Answer to Question #129930 in Statistics and Probability for Zuga

Question

Indicating gender of a person as either male or female represents___ scale of measurement.
1. Nominal
2. Ordinal
3. Interval
4. Ratio

Answer 1

The correct answer is Option 1. (Nominal).

This is because gender is a categorical variable where values such as 1 and 2 are assigned to male and female and just serve as dummy variables with no quantitative meaning.