A university wishes to conduct a student survey. In one of the questions students are asked to mark their gender as either male or female. Gender is an example of the:
A) Ordinal scale
B) Nominal scale
C) Ratio scale
D) Interval scale

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Gender is a categorical variable that can only take on two distinct values: male or female. Nominal scale is used to categorize and describe data using labels or names, which is the case with this question asking students to categorize themselves as male or female. The other scales (ordinal, interval, ratio) involve ordering, measuring, and quantifying data, which is not relevant to this question.

A University Wishes to Conduct a Student Survey