the variale "work status" measures participants employment status. participants were asked to select ONE from the following answer options: working fulltime, working parttime, temporarily not working, unemployed or recently laid off, or retired. these options were then given a numerical value of 1 through 5 and were entered in to spss. maria uses this data and calculates the mean of the "work status" variable. which of the following is true? -the value that maria calculates will be slightly bias but still okay. -the value that maria calculates is the best measure of central tendency for this variable -this will result in an inacccurate measure of central tendency -the value that maria calculates will be equal to all other measures of central tendency for this variable
the variale "work status" measures participants employment status. participants were asked to select ONE from the following answer options: working fulltime, working parttime, temporarily not working, unemployed or recently laid off, or retired. these options were then given a numerical value of 1 through 5 and were entered in to spss. maria uses this data and calculates the mean of the "work status" variable. which of the following is true?
-the value that maria calculates will be slightly bias but still okay.
-the value that maria calculates is the best measure of
-this will result in an inacccurate measure of central tendency
-the value that maria calculates will be equal to all other measures of central tendency for this variable.
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