There are four types of data resulting from research that determine what kind of statistical test is used in analysis. What type of data involves tallying everyone in a group in order to obtain frequencies for ordered categories?
A)Ordinal data
B)Nominal data
C)Interval data
D)Ratio data

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Ordinal data involves tallying everyone in a group in order to obtain frequencies for ordered categories, such as socioeconomic status or attitude toward abortion (on a Likert scale). Group means cannot be calculated from ordinal data.

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